The Tribune

By Lamech Johnson

CYRIL Darville has this morning been sentenced to 55 years in jail for the 1990 murder of Anthony Feaste.

The Supreme Court sentence runs from August 1992, the original date of conviction.

Darville's case had been adjourned until today because when he was last in court in August an issue arose over whether or not Cyril Darville began his sentence in 1997 or 2006, prompting Senior Justice Jon Isaacs to adjourn the proceedings.

The adjournment was to allow prosecutor Ambrose Armbrister to research the particulars of the matter.

Darville was sentenced to death in August 1992 for a shooting homicide in 1990. His appeal to the Court of Appeal was dismissed on 4 October 1994.

He was slated to be hanged in March 1996 after the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy found that clemency should not be granted in his case.

However, his execution was stayed and he has been behind bars since until June 6 of this year when the matter came before the judge but was adjourned to August.