TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO: KILLER TO BE RESENTENCED

A man convicted of murder in Trinidad and Tobago in 2008 will be resentenced after the Privy Council remitted his matter to the local Court of Appeal, quashing the death sentence that was imposed on him.
The British Law Lords remitted the matter, saying the mandatory death sentence was unconstitutional, adding that Richard Anthony Daniel, 39, had been in custody under sentence of death for more than the five-year period the State was allowed to carry out the sentence.
However, the Privy Council upheld his conviction which was challenged on the grounds of provocation.
In October 2008, Daniel was found guilty by a 12-member jury of murdering Shaheed Mohammed, a fire officer, outside his Freeport home on July 3, 2002, during an attempted robbery.