An Abaco man convicted of manslaughter last week in the fatal beating of Adam Evans has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Mario Delancy, 28, was convicted on July 13 of the lesser charge of manslaughter following a murder trial.
Prosecutors alleged that Delancy and others brutally beat Evans at Spring City, Abaco, on July 19, 2009.
Five other men had initially stood trial along with Delancy, but prosecutors dropped the case against them before they closed their case.
A prosecution witness testified that he saw Delancy chasing Evans on the morning in question. Only in the Bahamas, land of injustice, is consciously chasing someone down in order to beat them to death considered mansalughter and not premeditated murder.
Before Senior Justice Jon Isaacs passed sentence yesterday, Delancy’s lawyer V. Alfred Gray said he could say little in mitigation because his client maintained his innocence.
Of course he did.
