-sentenced to time served

FOUR years after Abdool Ameer Subrati was fatally shot during a robbery at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara, murder accused, Devon Chacon, on Tuesday, confessed to the crime, during a High Court appearance.

Justice Navindra Singh, after recording Chacon’s guilty plea to the lesser count of manslaughter, sentenced him to time served.
Chacon admitted that, on October 20, 2016, at Herstelling, he unlawfully killed the 43-year-old man.
The State was represented by prosecutor Tuanna Hardy, while Attorneys-at-Law Nigel Hughes, Ronald Daniels and Sophia Findlay were on record for Chacon.
Prosecutor Hardy pleaded with the court to consider the nature and gravity of the charge in its sentencing. Daniels, on the other hand, requested that the court consider the time his client had spent on remand awaiting trial.

In the end, the judge sentenced Chacon to time served, after considering his guilty plea and the time he had spent on remand.
The Guyana Chronicle had reported that Subrati’s brother, wife and daughter arrived in Guyana days before the robbery, and had planned a family reunion at the Herstelling property.
About 01:30hrs on the day in question, shortly after guests left, five bandits, two of whom were armed, pounced on the family. The gunmen, hiding in a bathroom in the back yard, escaped on foot with the visitors’ passports, money, jewellery and other personal items.

Subrati reportedly resisted the bandits and was shot to the neck. The bullet ricocheted to his spine and punctured his lung in the process.
Chacon is the brother-in-law of tenants who were renting the lower flat of the two-storey house where the robbery occurred. Hours after the murder Chacon was arrested and confessed to the crime.