Georgetown: Sylvester Bristol also called “Rambo”, was sentenced to serve 16 years in prison following his confession that he murdered 31-year-old Savitri Parma between February 15-16, 2014, at Yarrowkabra along the Linden/Soesdyke Highway.
The woman’s nude body was discovered the following morning at Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway with several marks of violence and a piece of bamboo lodged in her vagina. A shoelace was found not too far from the corpse.
The prosecutor said that the woman’s son was found sleeping in the rear seat of an abandoned car she used to ply her trade. Sometime after the murder, Bristol was handed over to police by public-spirited citizens.
The sentence was handed down by Justice Navindra Singh on Tuesday afternoon after he pleaded to the lesser count of manslaughter at the Demerara High Court.
Presenting the evidence detailing the death of the 31-year-old mother of two was State Prosecutor, Tiffini Lyken who told the court that Parma was raped, killed and tortured with a piece of bamboo that was discovered inserted in the woman’s vagina. Her uterus was also ruptured as a result of the heinous act.
The court also heard that the murdered Soesdyke taxi driver’s son was only a few feet away in the car. The Prosecutor further highlighted that after Bristol had dragged the woman to the bushes and committed the heinous act, he fled the scene. He was later found with the woman’s gold ring. Additionally, he only had one side of his footwear and subsequently confessed to his crime after he was grilled by Police.
Bristol, who was a heavy machine operator, was said to have led Police to the site where he put the lace that he used to strangle the woman to death. The post-mortem examination gave Parma’s cause of death as strangulation.
Represented by Attorney George Thomas, the accused on the verge of tears begged for the court’s mercy and told Justice Singh that he wasn’t in his right senses and could not remember what happened on that night.
Justice Singh before handing down the 16-year sentence took into consideration that the accused did not waste the court’s time and he accepted what he did was wrong. The judge ordered the prison service to deduct the time that Bristol spent on remand.
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