Jamaican highschool pupil will get 4 years and ten months for killing schoolmate

The 17-year-old William Knibb Memorial Excessive Faculty pupil who pleaded responsible to fatally stabbing 16-year-old Khamal Corridor was sentenced to 4 years and ten months in jail for manslaughter.

Justice Andrea Thomas handed down the ruling within the St. James Circuit Court docket on Monday.

The defendant, whose title is being withheld as a result of he’s a minor, was represented by attorney-at-law Marissa Dalrymple-Philibert.

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Studies are that the 2 schoolboys had been concerned in a struggle on the college through the lunch break on Monday, March 21 this 12 months, over a ‘guard’ ring.

Corridor, who was a soccer participant on the varsity’s DaCosta Cup staff was stabbed after a knife was reportedly used within the struggle.

He was taken to Falmouth Hospital however died whereas receiving remedy. The attacker was later arrested and subsequently charged.