Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
THE MAN who was sentenced to hang for the murder of 66-year-old Dougal Wright who was killed during a robbery in a bar was resentenced last week to life imprisonment.
He is Garnett Edwards, 28, vendor of Whitfield Avenue, Kingston 13. Mr. Justice Horace Marsh who resentenced Edwards recommended that he serve 15 years before he was eligible for parole.
Attorney-at-law Nancy Anderson who represented Edwards, pleaded with the judge not to impose the death sentence.
Edwards was convicted in March 2002. He appealed and the Court of Appeal dismissed it. Edwards has filed an appeal before the United Kingdom Privy Council and it is set for hearing next month.
Mr. Wright was fatally shot during a robbery at the Mango Tree Bar, Allman Town, Kingston on February 13, 1999.
A policeman who was in the bar tried to grab the gun from Edwards, but the cop was then shot and injured in the stomach. The bullet exited the policeman's stomach and struck Mr. Wright in the chest.
Mr. Justice Marsh, in passing sentence in the Home Circuit Court, said said he took into account the fact that Edwards had been in prison for the last seven years.
