The Court has rejected the prosecution’s request for a life sentence to be imposed on a former civil servant who has been found guilty of shooting his wife to death.
A former civil servant has been sentenced to 38 years imprisonment for the murder of his wife. On August 16, 2023, a jury found that Mitchell Israel, 61 with malice aforethought, caused the death of his wife, Arianna Taylor, by an unlawful act. The sentencing took place today, November 6, at High Court #2 in Kingstown before Justice Rickie Burnett. The deceased was a Cuban born nurse who had moved …
The sentencing of Mitchell Israel, who earlier this year was found guilty of murdering his wife, has been postponed to November 3. Justice Rickie Burnett postponed the sentencing, which had initially been scheduled for October 16, because Friday, October 13, the day he had set aside to hear submissions on the sentencing, by the Crown and Israel’s defence counsel Linton Lewis, had experienced heavy traffic on both sides of the …
Guilty of murder was the verdict returned for a man who killed his wife in 2020 outside their son’s school, despite his claims that he did not deliberately or intentionally shoot her.