41 year-old Leslie Pipersburgh and 39 year-old Patrick Robateau are two well-known convicts serving life sentences for a double murder. They were not supposed to come to court today, but due to an error, they ended up in front of Justice Antoinette Moore for a bail hearing, of all things.
They were escorted to court by members of the Gang Suppression Unit, since they are high-profile inmates, and when they went before Justice Moore, the court realized that they are actually supposed to be brought for re-sentencing. Viewers will remember that since the landmark ruling from the Court of Appeal in the case of Gregory August, a life sentence for a murder conviction is no longer automatic. So, since both men have been serving life sentences they were given under the old rules of the court, they must now be given a new sentence. Both men were taken back to the Belize Central Prison until January 18th, 2019, when they will go before Justice Colin Williams for a new sentence for the double murder convictions.
In March 2004, Pipersburgh and Robateau were convicted of the murders of security guards Kevin Alvarez and Fidel Mai who were shot and killed in July 2002 robbery of the Bowen and Bowen compound on Slaughterhouse Road.
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