AFTER spending more than 14 years in prison for a murder committed as a teenager, a 31-year-old woman was ordered freed on Friday after the High Court ruled that she had already served the appropriate term under the law governing child offenders.

Justice Devan Rampersad, delivering his ruling in the Port of Spain High Court, ordered the immediate release of Teneka Granger, who was just 17 when she stabbed her boyfriend to death.

In his ruling, Justice Rampersad applied provisions of the Children Act, along with guidance from the Court of Appeal decision in Adrian Mohammed v The State, in reassessing the sentence that had kept Granger detained for over a decade.