The decision was handed down in the High Court this morning by Justice Sandil Kissoon.
Brian Bobb- Semple will spend the next 23-years imprisonment for the murder of 9-year-old Shaquan Gittens back in April 2015.
There are reports the suspect told investigators that he grabbed the child on April 1, took him aback of Cane View Avenue, South Ruimveldt and sodomised him.
It is reported that while the ordeal was taking place he reportedly choked the lad until he became lifeless.
It was also reported that after committing the act, Bobb-Semple reportedly slept with Gittens under a tree but realised the following morning that the boy had died. This newscast understands that the man severed the child’s private part before having sex with his corpse; he then dumped the boy’s body into a canal.
The man at first was charged with the capital offence of murder but the 25-year-old man,25 pleaded guilty to the manslaughter charge and confessed that on that between April 1 and 4,2015 at Houston Backlands, East Bank Demerara, he murdered Shaquan Gittens.
Bobb-Semple will not eligible for parole.
At the trial, the young man was represented by Attorney-at-Law Maxwell McKay. In a plea of mitigation, McKay begged the court to be lenient on his client while stating that no person in their right state of mind would commit such a crime.
Bobb-Semple was committed to stand trial in the High Court in 2016 after the Preliminary Inquiry was completed in the Georgetown Magistrate Court before Magistrate Fabayo Azore.
It was during that trial Bobb-Semple was deemed fit to stand trial following an evaluation Government Psychiatrist Dr. Bhiro Harry.