A man who shot and killed a woman at her house in Succaba Pen, near Old Harbour, St Catherine, was on June 4 described by Justice Donald McIntosh as a cold-blooded killer.

The judge made the comments before he sentenced Dane Bonner, 27, also called 'Brass', of Old Harbour, to life imprisonment. The judge ordered that Bonner should serve 35 years before he is eligible for parole.

The judge told Bonner that the woman had not, in any way, caused him harm, adding that the dispute was with the woman's relative.

Evidence was given at the trial in the Home Circuit Court that, on February 17, 2002, Bonner shot 39-year-old vendor Sheryl Powell. She was rushed to the Spanish Town Hospital where she later succumbed to her wounds.

The police went to the hospital where Powell gave a dying declaration that it was Bonner and another man who shot her. She died on February 18, 2002.

Attorney-at-law Charles Ganga Singh objected to the bedside declaration being entered into evidence, but the court allowed it.