THE TOOL OF her trade was used to viciously take the life of fishboner Caroline Roberta Forde when her older lover attacked her three years ago.
The lovers – Forde, 49, and 72-year-old fisherman Garnett Levere Brome – shared a locker at the Bridgetown Fisheries Complex from which $2 450 went missing and set off a deadly confrontation.
Some of the chilling facts surrounding the killing of Forde on August 19, 2013, were revealed after Brome, of Six Men’s, St Peter, pleaded guilty to manslaughter yesterday in the No.2 Supreme Court before Justice Michelle Weekes.
A far cry from the able-bodied man who appeared originally charged with murder, Brome moved with the aid of a walker and seemed to be in pain. He pleaded guilty to the lesser count which was accepted by Deputy Director of Prosecutions, Donna Babb-Agard, QC. (TKS)
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