Causewell to be sentenced today
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Businessman Steven Causewell is to be is sentenced this afternoon in the Home Circuit Court. He was found guilty on September 8 of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Nordia Mitchell, at her Oaklands Apartment in St Andrew in 2008.
The 44-year-old convict will be sentenced by Justice Carol Lawrence-Beswick.
The sentencing was postponed Friday to give Justice Lawrence-Beswick time to read through the authorities that were cited by Causewell’s lead attorney, Queens Counsel Jacqueline Samuels-Brown.
Meanwhile, last Friday, psychologist Dr Barrington Davidson told the court that a lengthy prison sentence would destroy Causewell, who had been severely depressed over Mitchell’s death.
“I am convinced that a lengthy incarceration will have a devastating effect on Mr Causwell based on what I know of him,” said the founder of Family Life Ministries who was giving expert evidence.
He told the court that he was approached by Causewell in November 2014 and that after performing a psychological test, diagnosed the businessman as being depressed.
Two of the main reasons for Causewell’s depression, the doctor said, was his grief over Mitchell’s death, and his desire to have a relationship with Mitchell’s daughter, Imani Prendergast, who is now 18.
Tanesha Mundle