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Carrington Village man sentenced for 2015 stabbing death outside Queen’s Park

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Manslayer Nickolai Matthew Thompson was today given a starting sentence of 13 years in prison.

Justice Randall Worrell handed down the ruling on the Chadderton Road, Carrington Village, St Michael resident during a virtual sitting of the No. 2 Supreme Court this morning.

Thompson previously pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty of manslaughter in connection with the October 9, 2015 death of Brinsley Warde.

Warde was murdered after being involved in an altercation with three men, one of whom was Thompson. The situation deteriorated into a stone-throwing incident near the exit of Queen’s Park and spilled over onto Nursery Drive. The clash escalated with the men beating Warde before one of them stabbed him.

He succumbed to his injuries at the scene.

A postmortem found that his death was as a result of hemorrhagic shock from a stab wound to the back.

In handing down the sentence Justice Worrell cited the Court of Appeal’s ruling in Elliston Greaves vs The Queen which set down new guidelines on sentencing in manslaughter cases.

He agreed with Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale who represents the Crown and the convicted man’s  attorney Safiya Moore that Thompson’s case fell in category three of the Greaves ruling.

Category three sets down a starting sentence of ten to 15 years where the aggravating circumstances of the offence outweigh the mitigating features.

Justice Worrell said looking at those circumstances a starting sentence of 13 years in prison would be appropriate in Thompson’s matter.

The judge also took into consideration the aggravating and mitigating factors of the offender.

The convict who is assessed as a medium to high risk of re-offending was also said to have been in several altercations while being on remand which has resulted in the loss of vision in one eye. This, Justice Worrell said, had to be taken into consideration by the court.

“You were a young man at the time [of the offence] I take that into consideration. I also take into consideration the fact that you have no previous convictions, so the court has to balance that,” the judge said of the convict. According to information in his probation report, Thompson was a top recruit of the Barbados Youth Service.

“The court takes into consideration that your positives slightly outweigh the negatives and would lead to a reduction of the starting point by one year to 12 years [or 4 380 days],” Worrell explained.

The judge gave Thompson the full benefit of the one third discount or 1 460 days for his guilty plea, leaving him with a sentence 2 920 days.

However, the High Court said that sentence would be back-dated to October 16, 2015 when he was remanded to Doods in connection with the offence.

Thompson, who had already spent 2 174 days on remand, was also ordered to undergo anger management courses as well as remedial classes in Mathematics and English.

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