Derek Achong

A trades­man from Diego Mar­tin has been sen­tenced to hang for mur­der­ing a 21-year-old man in 2008. 

It took a 12-mem­ber ju­ry be­fore Jus­tice Car­la Brown-An­toine at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain al­most 20 min­utes to re­turn with the unan­i­mous guilty ver­dict for 38-year-old McLean Delpeche, of Farm Road, Rich­plain, Diego Mar­tin. 

Delpeche was charged with mur­der­ing Eli­jah Baksh on May 30, 2008. 

Baksh, orig­i­nal­ly of Low­lands, To­ba­go, was seat­ed in a car parked along Nor­folk Street in Bel­mont when he was shot sev­er­al times. 

Im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter the ju­ry fore­man de­liv­ered the ver­dict, Brown-An­toine hand­ed down the manda­to­ry death penal­ty for mur­der. 

Delpeche is al­so await­ing tri­al for the mur­ders of T&T De­fence Force (TTDF) Cpl An­cil Wal­lace, al­so of Rich­plain, Diego Mar­tin, and his best friend Noel Charles, of Co­corite.

Wal­lace, 46, and 42-year-old Charles were at Wal­lace's home cel­e­brat­ing the chris­ten­ing of his son when they were at­tacked on June 15, 2008. 

Delpeche was rep­re­sent­ed by Kawsi Bekoe, while Veona Neal-Munroe pros­e­cut­ed.