A Jamaican lady was sentenced to 42 years in jail for murdering her girlfriend throughout a dispute in The Bahamas final yr.
The sentence was handed down on Nadisha Beckford by a decide in The Bahamas on Tuesday.
Beckford was convicted in June for fatally stabbing 31-year-old Lakiesha Mackey within the parking zone of the Mayfair Lodge alongside West Bay Road on February 20, 2021.
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The 2 girls had an argument, and it’s alleged Beckford stabbed Mackey a number of occasions.
The wounded lady was taken to the hospital, the place she succumbed to her accidents two days later.
The Nassau Guardian reported that on the trial, the place Beckford didn’t testify however relied on her file of an interview with the police, the Jamaican contended that she stabbed Mackey in self-defense.
Beckford claimed the lady attacked her with a damaged bottle, which she ultimately managed to wrestle from her palms.
The prosecution poked a number of holes in Nadisha Beckford’s story with an audio recording of Beckford bragging in regards to the homicide to one in every of her associates.
The Jamaican reportedly bragged in regards to the stabbing of Mackey, describing herself as a “vampire”, and saying she would “drink” Mackey’s blood.
“… Name me when she lifeless,” Beckford reportedly advised the person within the recording.
Beckford additional broken her personal case when a video surfaced of her confessing to killing Mackey in self-defense.
This principle was rejected by the jury as they discovered her responsible of homicide.
At her sentencing listening to on Tuesday, her legal professional, Public Defender Dorsey McPhee, advisable that she be given a 12-year sentence, mentioning that his shopper was remorseful.
Moreover, McPhee stated Beckford was of the view that the jury didn’t return a simply verdict.
However prosecutor Cassie Bethell requested for a variety of 40 to 45 years of imprisonment for the Jamaican whom he describe as a profession prison.
In line with Bethell, a sentence in that vary can be extra acceptable given Beckford’s prior convictions for violence and the circumstances of the current case.
Bahamian decide, Justice Renae McKay, in handing down her 42-year sentence, weighed the “prevalence of homicide and the actual circumstances of the offense”, the media report stated.
Of notice, the decide credited Beckford for the 15 months and 27 days she spent in police custody awaiting trial.
McPhee has indicated to the Bahamian media that his shopper will attraction each the conviction and sentence.