SHANNON Cox, 24, was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury on Thursday for his role in the 2017 fatal stabbing of 16-Year-Old Brian Charles Yearwood outside the Covent Garden Nursery School, East Bank Demerara (EBD).

The 12-member jury, after deliberating for two hours, found Cox guilty of lesser offence of manslaughter, even though he was on trial for murder.
Cox’s case was tried before Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall at the Demerara High Court.

The now-convicted man, who was a teenager at the time of the incident, will return to Court on March 10.
A probation report will be read to the Court on that day, after which Cox will be sentenced.

Cox was one of two persons tried in this matter.
His co-accused, Andy Daniel Peters, was freed of the charge by Justice Morris-Ramlall on Monday after Peters’ lawyer, Latchmi Rahamat, successfully argued that the state’s prosecutor, Lisa Cave, lacked sufficient evidence to convict him.

Cox’s attorney, Madan Kissoon, also attempted a similar argument which was overruled by the judge, instead calling on Cox to lead his defence.

According to previous reports, Yearwood, who was a resident of Grove, EBD, was involved in a heated argument with two persons outside of the Covent Garden Nursey School where a concert was being held. That argument led to Yearwood’s demise.

He was rushed to the nearby Diamond Diagnostic Centre, where he was declared dead.