Repeat offender gets life
March 04, 2006
A JUVENILE, who was convicted three times for murder before he was 18 years old, was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment.
The convict is 25-year-old Damion Thomas, also called 'Cuttist' of a downtown Kingston address. He was first convicted on April 14, 1997 and ordered detained at the Governor-General's pleasure. He was convicted of the second murder on February 11, 2000.
Justice Horace Marsh in re-sentencing Thomas in the Home Circuit Court recommended that he should serve 25 years before he was eligible for parole.
Thomas was sentenced yesterday for the murder of Donovan Brown which was committed on February 4, 1998. On December 3, 2002, he was sentenced to hang for Brown's murder because at the time he had two previous convictions for murder.
Attorney-at-law Carolyn Reid who represented Thomas submitted that he was 17 when he murdered Brown.
NO DEATH SENTENCE...
Author: Barbara Gayle
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
