A man from Pe­nal has been sen­tenced to 10 years in prison for chop­ping his broth­er to death af­ter he (the broth­er) re­peat­ed­ly as­sault­ed their 71-year-old moth­er.

Aval­on Thomp­son, of La­choos Road, Pe­nal, was charged with mur­der­ing his broth­er Paul Mark Teeluck af­ter he in­ter­vened in an al­ter­ca­tion be­tween him and their moth­er Dhan­ra­jayia Thomp­son in 2017.

He was al­so charged with wound­ing with in­tent as their moth­er was chopped when she at­tempt­ed to sep­a­rate the brawl­ing sib­lings.