Ulverston man sentenced to 20 years for knifing reputed wife to death

Feb 21, 2019 News

Forty-six year-old ex-Cane Harvester Winston Benjamin was yesterday jailed for 20 years by Justice Brassington Reynolds after he pleaded guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter committed in 2016 on his wife Yansen Brush of Ulverston Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
Prior to the sentencing at the Berbice High Court, Benjamin had asked that a probation report not be done on him and requested the court do what it felt was best.
The State was represented by Attorney-at-law Mandel Moore.
On October 18, 2016, Benjamin fatally stabbed the mother of his four children to death at a shop located a few lots away from their home at Ulverston Village. Benjamin entered the shop where Brush was making a purchase and they exchanged words, when Benjamin whipped out a knife and plunged it several times into Brush.
The shop owner had told Kaieteur News then that she grabbed on to Benjamin through an opening in the shop counter in a bid to keep him from escaping, while a bleeding Yansen staggered to the side of the shop.
Benjamin managed to wriggle free from the other woman’s grasp with the weapon still in his possession and fled the scene.
Residents in the area had told this publication that Brush and Benjamin, who were not living together, shared a turbulent relationship. It was revealed that three weeks prior to the stabbing, Benjamin had threatened Brush with a cutlass after she refused to give him $2000. Benjamin had escaped into the Ulverston backdam after committing the act and was later captured by authorities.

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