TWENTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD Tramangra Williams nicknamed ‘Queenie’, of Lot ‘D’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown, who knifed her Barbadian lover to death in December, 2008, will have to serve 18 years in prison.
The Guyanese had met Tyrone Bess in Barbados and lured him into visiting Guyana where they became lovers and they lived at Lot 605 ‘D’ Field, Sophia.Bess, like many men, was jealous and objected to his paramour becoming familiar with men.
One such occasion was on December 27, 2008, when he expressed his dislike about her relationship with a man named Eon and scolded her as a consequence.
According to her, Bess accused her of having an affair with Eon, slapped her and pulled up her clothes in public.
That particular day, she was speaking to Eon, when Bess left in disgust and went towards home but, when she arrived, he was not there and she began making arrangements to put him out, at least for a short time.
That evening, she went on her verandah and was about to put his suitcase there when she saw him smoking a cigarette. Another argument escalated between them resulting, in her telling him that she was going to get the Police to expel him from the house.
On hearing this, she said, Bess kicked her and pelted her with one of his shoes that struck her in the face.
Barely pushed
She said she turned around, with a knife in her hand, which she barely pushed toward him and he got bore in his stomach, she said in one of her statements to the police.
Following police investigations, she was charged with murder but, at her trial, she pleaded not guilty to the capital offence and was represented by attorneys-at-law, Mr. Peter Hugh and Ms. Latchmie Rahamat.
State Counsel Ms. Judith Mursalin, from the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) prosecuted.
The jury deliberated for more than three hours before returning for further directions, in relation to murder and manslaughter.
They, later, returned a verdict of not guilty in respect of murder but guilty of the lesser count.
When asked whether she had anything to say why sentence should not be passed, the convict said she was sorry for what had happened.
She expressed the hope that the relatives of Bess would forgive her, since she did not intend to kill him.
Before passing sentence, Justice Singh said his intention was to impose 30 years imprisonment but he deducted six years for provocation, as indicated by the jury’s decision and another six years for the remorse shown by the prisoner.

(By George Barclay )