Barbara Gayle, Staff ReporterA MAN who stabbed and killed his co-worker was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for manslaughter.
Justice Horace Marsh imposed the sentence on Neil McCormack, 33, janitor, of 19 Curry Path, Arnett Gardens, St. Andrew, after a Home Circuit Court jury convicted him of manslaughter.
He was charged with non-capital murder but the jury found him guilty of the lesser offence.
McCormack was convicted of manslaughter arising from the fatal stabbing of 47-year-old George Glasford Dunkley, a driver who was employed to Restaurants of Jamaica.
McCormack was charged with murder but the jury found him guilty of the lesser offence.
The Crown, represented by Donald Bryan, acting Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, and Icolyn Reid, Crown Counsel, led evidence at the trial that in February 2001, the accused was a sideman on a truck belonging to Restaurants of Jamaica while Dunkley was the driver.
Evidence was given that Dunkley told McCormack not to sit in the cab of the truck but McCormack refused to leave the vehicle. Dunkley tried to pull him out. Dunkley and McCormack eventually came out of the truck and then Dunkley re-entered the truck. McCormack went back into the truck and the witness said shortly after he saw when McCormack leaned towards Dunkley.
DROVE HIMSELF TO HOSPITAL
The witness said he next saw Dunkley holding his left breast. Dunkley went into his motor car and drove to the University Hospital where he collapsed.
The medical evidence was that Dunkley died from a stab wound to the heart.
In an unsworn statement from the dock, McCormack said Dunkley pulled him out of the truck and attacked him with a piece of iron pipe. He said he pulled his ratchet knife and stabbed Dunkley in self-defence.
