CONFESSED murderer Gilbert Gill, called “Bizen Bull”, who was charged with the brutal murder of Khemraj Dass,47, was yesterday jailed for 40 years.Justice George had started the sentence with 50 years, but subsequently deducted 10.
Gill,who was said to be the product of a dysfunctional family,had struck Dass twice on the head with a piece of wood,then slashed him across the throat with a knife before throwing him overboard.

Before the trial, Justice Madame Roxanne George had caused the prisoner to be assessed by Government psychiatrist Dr.Bhiro Harry at a psychiatric clinic of the Georgetown Hospital Corporation from the 28th April, 2015.
The doctor said that he had the opportunity to interview the prisoner’s parents on the 4th May at the Hospital Clinic, where his mother is a patient.
In a report to the judge on Gill’s history, Dr. Harry said: “He was born from a difficult delivery and had to be given oxygen and put into the incubator, both mother and baby had to spend many days in hospital.
“Ás a baby growing up he became delirious with high fever and subsequently experienced seizures. He is usually impulsive and experiences frequent, intense headaches without apparent reason.
“His parents described a psychotic episode a few years before the incident and similar behaviour just around the time of the incident.
“He understands the nature and purpose of the legal proceedings against him and recalled and explained in coherent language the facts of the incident. He understands the charges against him and the penalties if convicted. He is not likely to be disruptive in the court room.
“On the day of assessment, he was quiet and cooperative, well oriented as to time, place and person, and responded appropriately to questions.
“Diagnostic conclusion
-Mental Retardation, degree not specified.
– Organic Brain Syndrome (chronic).
– Subclinical Seizures
“He should be treated with Carbamazepine for the rest of his life.
“This prisoner is considered fit to stand trial.”
Bhiro Harry MD
P.S. If the prisoner had been brought earlier, then we would have been able to do a more in-depth and comprehensive report.
The accused,who was represented by Mr. M. Kissoon, pleaded guilty and urged the judge to inflict the type of punishment that would provide for the requisite medical attention.
In narrating the facts of the case, Prosecutrix Miss Shawnette Austin disclosed that the accused was only 19 years old when the offence was committed on Khemraj Dass, called “Lakeram.”
According to her , it appears that the deceased and the defendant were in a fight; the defendant took away a piece of wood from the deceased and lashed him twice on the head, then took a knife from his own pocket, “pulled” it across the deceased’s throat,then threw him overboard . He then threw away the knife and wood and washed the blood off the boat that they were on.
The deceased’s body was soon after fished out from the koker at Wales by the police.
“Clearly, the acts of killing, and after the killing , were devoid of emotions; they are consistent with careful, but violent thoughts, and ease, with which the acts were carried out, almost of an inhuman kind.
“The evidence against the accused reveals a confession tendered as freely and voluntarily.
The probation officer in the Social Enquiry Report disclosed that the prisoner, who is now 22 years old is the product of a dysfunctional family; born to a mother who is mentally ill, an alcoholic father and has siblings who suffer mental illness.
He was raised in an abusive home and experienced the brutal attacks of his father towards his mother . Coupled with his inability to perform academically, those experiences may have affected him mentally.
The probation officer however declared that under the circumstances therefore, society cannot condone the settling of disputes through violence that result in death and citizens must respect the sanctity of life, hence, to take another person’s life which occurred in this instance, must be met with consequences so that brutality will not thrive, and law and order will prevail.
By George Barclay