A QUEEN’S COUNSEL has submitted a proposal for a new set of guidelines to the Court of Appeal to consider in sentencing people charged with offences involving death.
Attorney at law Ralph Thorne made the submission to the court last week after saying the trial judge who sentenced his client to five years for manslaughter had admitted finding difficulty in placing him within the present guidelines, in existence since 2006.
That client Kemar Nurse pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the well publicised case of 16-year-old schoolboy Averell White, who was killed in 2006 in a cellphone incident at Oistins, Christ Church.
Nurse, who was a 17-year-old schoolboy at the time of the incident, was sentenced on January 20, 2011.
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