Latest update February 20th, 2025 12:39 PM
Murder accused pleads guilty to lesser count of manslaughter
– admits to stabbing wife
After spending almost eight years in jail, murder accused Haydock Baxter has pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter, for the killing of his wife, Carol Braithwaite-Baxter.
Haydock Baxter
His case was presented for trial at the High Court, before Justice Dawn Gregory and a mixed 12-member jury, yesterday.
According to reports, the accused attacked and stabbed his wife in broad daylight, while in the vicinity of the Georgetown Prisons, on October 19, 2009.
The woman was reportedly, taking food for her eldest son, who had been imprisoned.
However, Baxter told the court yesterday that his wife had attacked him, on the day of the incident.
“She see me passing on a bicycle and she try to throw hot porridge pun meh because I de sleep out de night before … I had a knife and I stab she,” the man told the court, as he apologized for what had happened.
After listening to Baxter, the Judge remanded him to prison pending sentence, which has been scheduled for June 17.
The accused is being represented by Huckumcahnd Parag, while Natasha Backer and Mercedes Thompson are representing the State in the matter.
Details relating to the case are that the 48-year-old victim, of Garnett Street, Albouystown was stabbed in the neck, by Baxter. Public spirited citizens came to her rescue and apprehended her husband.
The woman was subsequently hospitalized at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
She had told reporters that Baxter would constantly threaten and abuse her, whenever she refused to give him money to support his habit.
“When I reach in front de prison and go fuh sign me name, he come and tell me when I finish, let we go fuh de divorce. I tell he I aint going,” the woman had said.
She had recalled that her husband became annoyed and pulled out a knife and plunged it into her neck. She was stabbed at least three times. The woman succumbed to her injuries, days after being hospitalised.
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