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A 30-year-old man from Manzanilla has been sentenced to a little over 17 years in prison after admitting to murdering an elderly businessman during a botched kidnapping attempt in 2014.
Arnold Ashton, of Nariva Road, Manzanilla, was awaiting trial for murder for well over a decade before he was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser offence of felony murder based on a plea agreement with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) negotiated by his attorneys Shawn Morris and Janiel Chuck.
Under the felony murder rule, the mandatory death penalty for murder is waived in circumstances where death occurred during the commission of a lesser criminal offence.
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