Region 6 man jailed for 20 years for killing drinking partner

When the Berbice Criminal Assizes continued on Monday, 30-year-old Jerry Heralall was handed a 20-year jail sentence for the 2020 unlawful killing of his drinking partner, Celon Outar.
Initially indicted for the capital offence of murder, Heralall of New Amsterdam, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter when he appeared before Justice Navindra Singh at the High Court in Berbice.
Between January 25 and 27, 2020, at Republic Road, New Amsterdam, he killed Outar. The presiding Judge, in his sentencing remarks, noted that the confessed killer expressed no genuine remorse for his criminal actions which resulted in the death of someone.

Having considered the circumstances of the case, and the aggravating and mitigating factors, Justice Singh found that a prison sentence of 20 years was fitting. Heralall was also credited for time spent in pre-trial detention.
According to reports, Outar’s body was pulled from a trench on January 27, 2020. He was last seen two days prior consuming alcohol at a bar with his wife, Heralall, and another friend.
It was reported that Heralall and Outar had a misunderstanding after Heralall requested that Outar’s wife drink with him, to which Outar objected.  During the ordeal, Heralall admitted that he used a piece of wood to deal Outar a lash to his head and about his body.
When Outar became motionless, he said he dragged him to the nearby trench, where he threw him in and then returned to the bar and continued imbibing with the man’s wife and others.
An autopsy showed that Outar died from asphyxiation compounded with a fractured skull and multiple traumas to the body.