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Arkel’s Killer Pleads Guilty
posted (March 26, 2019)
You may remember the tragic story of 15 year-old Arkel August. He's the teenaged student who was stabbed to death at the basketball court on the Wilton Cumberbatch field in April of 2018.

He was attempting to break up a fight between 2 of his peers, and one of them went home, came back with a knife, and fatally stabbed August in the chest. Well that minor, who is now 16 years-old has pleaded guilty to manslaughter, instead of the alternative charge of murder that he was facing.

The case was called up before Justice Colin Williams today, and instead of forcing a full trial to be carried out, the minor and his defense attorney, Darrell Bradley, decided to enter him into a guilty plea for manslaughter, and not murder. Justice Williams has deferred sentencing until April 9th, to give his attorney time to call character witnesses for a mitigation plea.

The Crown was represented by Senior Crown Counsel Shanice Lovell.

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