(Kaieteur News) – A 26-year-old woman has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for setting her ex-boyfriend on fire during a dispute over a missing wallet, an act that left him hospitalised for weeks before he died from his injuries.

Melissa David appeared before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the Georgetown High Court on Wednesday, where the sentence was handed down. David had pleaded guilty in April to manslaughter, after an initial murder charge was reduced to the lesser count.

David and her victim, 31-year-old Edmond Moses, shared a child and had previously been in a relationship. Though separated, the two continued to live in adjacent apartments within the same building on New Market Street, Georgetown.