A Princes Town cou­ple has been sen­tenced to a com­bined 29 years in prison for the killing of the woman’s abu­sive ex-boyfriend.

Dwayne Baldeo and Re­nee Mo­hammed, who were await­ing tri­al for the 2020 mur­der of Christo­pher Ho­sein, were re­cent­ly al­lowed to plead guilty un­der the felony mur­der rule as part of a plea agree­ment with the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP).

Un­der the rule, the manda­to­ry death penal­ty for mur­der is waived in cir­cum­stances where a death oc­curs dur­ing the com­mis­sion of a less­er crim­i­nal of­fence.