DEATH SENTENCE FOR COP WHO SHOT PARTYING YOUTH

Acting Chief Justice Roger Hamel-Smith of the Appeal Court in Trinidad & Tobago affirmed the death sentence on a police officer who shot and killed a Cunupia teenager at a Carnival party in 2004. A jury dismissed PC Dave Burnett's claim that he had been acting in self-defence when he shot 18 year old Kevin Cato in the chest at the Outrageous in Red fete held in Chaguaramas, on January 24, 2004. Cato's friends claimed that they were jumping around to music and accidentally bumped Burnett and he slapped one of them, Ryan Solomon. Solomon slapped the officer back and Burnett shot both him and Cato.