Georgetown: A former Guyana Defence Force (GDF) officer accused of killing 13-month-old Arianne Gill and the feloniously wounding of the child’s aunt, Ashley Wellington on October 18, 2015 at Eastville Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara was sentenced to 14 years for the murder and another eight for the felonious wounding.
The sentences will run concurrently.
The accused 44-year-old Marc Angoy of Buzz Bee Dam, Craig, East Bank Demerara was sentenced by Justice Navindra Singh after pleading guilty to a lesser count of manslaughter.
Angoy was represented by Attorney-at-law, Mark Conway, while the State was represented by prosecutors Tuanna Hardy, Abigail Gibbs and Teriq Mohammed.
The shooting reportedly stemmed from a restraining order that was taken out against him by his former lover, Shelly Norton after being a victim of physical abuse.
It was reported that the former Guyana Defence Force member was previously charged, but later acquitted for the murder of a man in 1998 at Twelve and a Half Miles Issano, Mazaruni, Region Seven.
However, during his confession, Angoy reportedly told detectives that he was angry that the woman had filed the restraining order although he gave her everything she wanted to live a comfortable life.
On the day in question, he reportedly went to Norton’s Annandale, East Coast Demerara home with the intention of killing her. Armed with a gun and peering through a window, the suspect reportedly fired into the house.
The bullets struck and killed 13-month-old Arianne Gill and wounded her 12-year-old aunt Ashley Wellington.
Northon said that after being in an abusive relationship with him for three long years, she finally called it quits two month ago. But according to her, Angoy was having none of it, and reportedly told her that leaving him would be the biggest mistake she’d ever make.
But Northon was long over him. “I left him because of abuse in every way possible: Physical, mental, verbal, and emotional; every way possible,” she told the Guyana Chronicle Sunday.
She said the reason Angoy targeted those two particular children was because he knew how much she loved them; how close they both were to her heart.
“I normally call her ‘Princess’; and he know I care a lot for these two…” Northon said, adding:
“We tried patching up the relationship many times before, but he is very abusive. He even smoke cocaine in the house, and because of his behaviour towards me, my children could not stand it and they moved out.”
Looking back, she said: “I guess I’ll now have to live with the grief of making a major mistake by allowing the abuse that later ended in the murder of my grand-daughter.”
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