Two men have been each sentenced to 28 years in prison after admitting to murdering an off-duty policeman, over a decade ago.
In November, last year, Devon Walker and Kernel Charles were on trial for murdering PC Chris Bharath on February 9, 2008, when they decided to change their pleas to guilty.
They benefited from the felony murder rule, which provides for the waiver of the mandatory death penalty for murder in certain cases where a person is killed during the commission of a lesser criminal offence, in most cases robbery.
Walker received his sentence from High Court Judge Norton Jack, last year, while Charles was sentenced by Jack in the Port-of-Spain High Court, last Friday.
Walker and Charles are expected to be released within seven years and 22 days and six years, six months and 25 days, respectively, as they were afforded a one-third discount on their sentence due to their guilty pleas.
The time they both spent on remand awaiting trial was also deducted from their sentences.
According to the evidence presented during the trial, PC Bharath, 33, of Edinburgh 500, was walking along St Vincent Street in Port-of-Spain, when he was approached by two men, one of whom stabbed him several times.
He died on the scene.
Walker and Charles were arrested and charged following an investigation from then Inspector Ancil Corbett of the Region One Homicide Bureau.
Veonna Neale-Monroe and Rea Libert prosecuted.
