‘Hot Skull’ gets life for killing pensioner

Jul 09, 2022 News

Kaieteur News – Sherwin Clarke, 33, called ‘Hot Skull’ on Friday received a life imprisonment sentence for the killing of 76-year-old David Ramkissoon, a businessman of Better Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD).

Sentence to life, Sherwin Clarke

Dead, David Ramkissoon.

On June 9, 2022, Clarke was arraigned before Justice Sandil Kissoon, at the Demerara High Court. On that occasion, he had denied that he murdered the pensioner and a jury was empanelled to hear the testimony of the eight witnesses.

When the matter continued the following week however, Clarke’s lawyer indicated to the court that his client has opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter.

Clarke admitted that on August 21, 2016, he killed Ramkissoon during the course or furtherance of a robbery.

On Friday, Justice Kissoon handed Clarke a life sentence with the chance of parole after serving 20 years.

Serving an 11 year sentence, Godfrey Gill

According to reports, Clarke was charged jointly with Godfrey Gill, 28, for the murder of the pensioner. Back in April, Gill was sentenced to 11 years and four months for the offence. Gill had pleaded not guilty to the capital offence, but admitted guilt on the lesser charge that he, in the company of others, killed Ramkissoon during a robbery on August 21, 2016

According to reports, the body of Ramkissoon, 76, also known as ‘Short Man,’ a father of five, was discovered in a pool of blood with his throat slit in the living room of his home by his son. It was reported that the man’s son had just returned home after spending a day at the creek with family, when he made the gruesome discovery.

It was reported that there was a dispute over money stolen from Ramkissoon’s house, not being shared equally and this led to the police arresting the suspects.

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