AN ex-security guard, who confessed to killing his colleague during an argument three years ago, due to the man ‘troubling his daughter,’ was, on Tuesday, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.

Kevin Stephens, a former resident of La Penitence, Georgetown, was sentenced by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the Demerara High Court for manslaughter. He was initially charged for murder.

Stephens pleaded guilty to the charge which read that, on September 17, 2016, at Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara, he unlawfully killed Hubert Verwayne.

On Tuesday, following a probation report and mitigation from his attorney, George Thomas, Stephens was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.

The accused reportedly told detectives that “they keep f*^#* around my daughter.”
Initial enquiries revealed that Verwayne was in the company of several other employees when the suspect, armed with a shotgun, approached him in a rage, stating that he (Verwayne) and others were making ill remarks about his daughter. He then opened fire, killing Verwayne.

When arrested by police, Stephens claimed that he was being tantalised by his colleagues at the worksite, causing him to lose control. A postmortem examination revealed that Verwayne died from a gunshot injury to the chest.