Two found guilty of killing agriculturalist
Donnel Trapp and Paul Goriah are now awaiting sentencing after a jury yesterday afternoon found them guilty of the 2016 killing of Soesdyke-Hill Foot farmer/agriculturalist Anthony Breedy.
The duo had been indicted for murder, but following hours of deliberations, the jury returned with unanimous verdicts of guilty to manslaughter for both.
Justice Simone MorrisRamlall has deferred sentencing to February 29th to first hear from probation and other social impact reports.
Back in June of 2022, Keimo Corbin, the third accomplice in Breedy’s killing, was handed a life sentence after pleading guilty to murder.
He admitted murdering Breedy in the company of others, between March 12th and 14th, 2016 during a robbery at the man’s home.
The trial which ended yesterday
was Trapp’s second as a jury back in May of 2022 was unable to arrive at a verdict.
It was, however, the first time that Goriah had been facing trial.
Goriah was among thirteen prisoners who escaped from the Lusignan Prison in July 2017.
He was captured in June, 2020 by authorities in neighbouring Suriname on an attempted
robbery there.
He was eventually handed over to local law enforcement authorities two years later.
Background
The agriculturalist had been found dead in the bottom flat of his Lot 67 Hill Foot, Soesdyke/ Linden Highway home.
His hands and feet were
bound and his head was bashed in.
A piece of wood and a concrete block suspected to be the murder weapons were found at the scene.
Investigators had said that the men went to Breedy’s home where they bound, gagged and beat him, before ransacking the premises and carting off a quantity
of household items.
Police had said that the men were all found with a number of Breedy’s belongings in their possession.
A post-mortem examination would later reveal that he died as a result of asphyxia due to manual strangulation compounded by multiple blunt trauma to the head.