They were first sentenced to death by hanging after they were convicted of killing 4 people when they carried out the armed robbery of Bowen and Bowen headquarters on Slaughterhouse Road, which happened in June 2002. The victims in that gruesome mass-murder included the 2 on-duty KBH security guards Fidel Mai and Kevin Alvarez, as well as the civilians, David Flores and Cherry Tucker.

But they appealed that decision and the Privy council eventually overturned that guilty verdict. They were tried a second time in 2011, and in that retrial, they were only convicted of the murders of the on-duty security guards.

So, up until this point, they were both serving 2 life sentences in prison, but those sentences have been substituted once again. Justice Colin Williams has ruled that they will now spend 25 more years in jail instead.

That's because the Supreme Court has been going through an extensive exercise of re-sentencing all persons convicted of murder. They were all serving the mandatory minimum, which was always life in prison, but since the Gregory August Appeal of November 2016, the courts have now done away that automatic sentence.

So, that's how Pipersburgh and Robateau ended up back before the Supreme Court in July of this year. Their attorney, Hector Guerra, attempted to make a strong case to Justice Williams that he should substitute a fixed-term prison sentence of 20 to 30 years.

Justice Williams returned to court today to announce that while he acknowledges the efforts that both convicts have made to rehabilitate themselves while being behind bars, the court has a responsibility to ensure that the punishment fits the crime.

So, with that, the judge handed them a new sentence of 35 years, but 10 years will be deducted. That is the total time they've spent on remand while awaiting trial for these crimes.