The 45-year-old man who admitted to chopping his wife to death in a 2016 attack at the Bygeval Secondary School was yesterday sentenced to 22 years in prison for manslaughter  and eight years for wounding his wife’s cousin, Brenda Thomas.

Athlone Pitt had been arraigned for murdering his wife Candacy Pitt on June 1st 2016 at the Bygeval Secondary School at Mahaica, East Coast Demerara.

When the matter was called yesterday for sentencing before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow, the state’s case which was put forward by Prosecutor Sarah Martin was that the man became angry after an argument with his wife and went to his wife’s place of work on the day in question armed with a knife and cutlass after he had drunk alcohol.(Stabroeknews)…[+]