BUTCHERY, HEINOUS, horrific and a most severe and serious attack were just some of the words Justice Randall Worrell used to describe the 45 chops Allan Alston Belle inflicted on his estranged wife Brenda Belle more than seven years ago.
And while Justice Worrell started at 24 years in jail for Belle’s act of manslaughter, the elderly man will spend about eight years more because of deductions for his guilty plea, mitigating features and as a result of his sentence being backdated to the time he entered prison in May 2013.
“Even if, as you contend, you may have been attacked, the 45 injuries which Brenda Belle would have sustained or suffered clearly would indicate to this court that you basically inflicted a most severe and serious attack with a cutlass on your now deceased wife. The aspect of domestic violence looms heavily with respect of this matter,” the judge told the confessed killer.
Belle, now 68, of St Barnabas Heights, St Michael, was back before the No. 2 Supreme Court yesterday afternoon after pleading guilty, at an earlier Session of the Continuous Sittings, to unlawfully killing Brenda Belle, then 60, on April 30, 2013. He denied murdering her on the same date. (HLE)
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