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Lindener gets life for killing estranged lover’s son
Rawle Samuels, 29, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the unlawful killing of a four-year- old boy. Samuels was sentenced yesterday by Justice Nareshwar Harnanan after a probation report was presented on his behalf at the
Sentenced to life: Rawle Samuels
Georgetown High Court.
Samuels, of Buck Hill Wismar, Linden must serve 30 years behind bars before he is eligible for parole.
He was originally indicted for the murder of four-year-old Jamal Naranjan Nedd but he pleaded guilty to the lesser count of Manslaughter.
The probation report outlined that Samuels had a history of violence and had been charged before for fracturing the jaw of the mother of his children after hitting her to the face with a hatchet. The report also mentioned instances of alcohol and drug use.
According to the information, Samuels is said to have also shared an abusive relationship with the mother of the four year –old, with whom he later formed a common law relationship.
On one occasion, he used an electric iron to burn the woman after she refused to iron his clothes. Samuels reportedly killed the four year- old in retaliation to his mother indicating that she no longer wanted any relationship with him.
The report further outlined that Samuels acknowledged that his action led to the death of the child and he wished to be forgiven. He also expressed anger over the stigma attached to his name.
According to the indictment presented by State Prosecutors Siand Dhurjon, Shawnette Austin and Lisa Case the four-year-old nursery school child, was brutally stabbed repeatedly about the body by his mother’s paramour. The incident occurred on February, 6, 2013 at Buck Hill Wismar Linden.
The child, Nedd, had reportedly just returned home from school, when he came under attack from the man, with whom his mother shared a relationship.
The police only arrived at the scene after the child was viciously stabbed, and Samuels had made good his escape. He was apprehended later and charged for the crimes.
The child’s intestines protruded from the incision in his abdomen. He was rushed to the Linden Hospital Complex where he died shortly after.
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