Life in prison.
That was the sentence handed down by Justice Carlisle Greaves on killer Shawn Andre Weekes in the No. 3 Supreme Court yesterday.
However, the judge said it was only the 20-year delay in the matter – 11 years when Weekes was hiding in the United States and the remaining nine when the matter floundered in the judicial system, as well as the time Weekes spent on remand – that helped reduce the review time from 35 years to 19.
Weekes, 38, of the Crane, St Philip, was unanimously convicted, at an earlier Session of the Continuous Sittings, of murdering 24-year-old Leo Callender, formerly of St Martin’s, St Philip, on October 29, 2000. He was represented by Queen’s Counsel Andrew Pilgrim, while Senior Crown Counsel Neville Watson prosecuted.
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