Linden man gets 18 years for killing wife, stabbing step-daughter

– woman sustained over 20 stab wounds

Clarence Carter, who knifed his reputed wife to death over two years ago, admitted to his crime before Justice Sandil Kissoon on Thursday, and was jailed for 18 years. Carter also confessed to wounding the woman’s daughter during his rampage.
Pleading guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter upon his arraignment at the Demerara High Court, the 56-year-old father of two admitted that he stabbed Leolyn Sullivan over 20 times at the Phase 1B Wisroc, Linden home they had shared.
Justice Kissoon, in sentencing Carter, started at a base of 25 years, but took off time for his guilty plea and other factors, including good prison behaviour and time spent on remand.
The judge would have sentenced him to 12 years, but he added 6 years for the domestic violence aspect of the offence. Such cases have been steadily dominating local headlines.
The offender was also given a separate 5-year sentence for maliciously wounding Sullivan’s daughter, Shemicka Campbell, whom he stabbed 6 times during his January 18, 2016 attack. She was 18 at the time.
The judge ordered the sentences to run concurrently.
Carter was represented by attorney Maxwell McKay while State counsels Lisa Cave and Orinthia Schmidt presented the two indictments.

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Reports are that Sullivan and Carter had had an argument after he had accused her of being unfaithful. He then whipped out a knife and stabbed her about the body. She reportedly tried to escape by plunging through a window, and he attempted to pursue her, but her daughter intervened, and he injured the teen.
He later turned the knife on himself, slashing his wrists and neck in a botched attempt at suicide. Sullivan died while being transported to hospital.