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A 25-year-old man from Las Lomas, who stabbed his pregnant mother to death in 2019 because he was angry over being neglected as a child, will have to serve almost a decade longer in prison before he is released.
Michael Joseph was initially charged with his mother's murder but was allowed to plead guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter by provocation based on a plea agreement recently negotiated by his attorney, Michelle Ali, of the Public Defenders' Department (PDD).
In deciding on the appropriate sentence for Joseph, Justice Sherene Murray-Bailey accepted the 27-year starting point agreed by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) under the plea deal.
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