The Tribune

A MAN convicted in the Supreme Court in December of having sex with an 11-year-old girl will have to wait another month before he is sentenced. Alexander McPhee was brought down to Bank Lane yesterday, however Justice Vera Watkins was unable to confirm the number of years the convict had spent on remand before trial to subtract it from his actual seven-year sentence. McPhee had been on bail for some 10 months up to his conviction, but the judge said she was unsure of this. Justice Watkins had prepared a written ruling, but did not read from it for the record. All she said was that there were no mitigating circumstances to warrant the court to show leniency to McPhee. She adjourned the sentencing to May 1 when the issue of his prison remand came up. McPhee's unlawful sex case was initially heard in a preliminary inquiry in Magistrate's Court before being forwarded to the next highest court for trial, where prosecutors Roger Thompson, Koschina Marshall and Terri Archer presented evidence to a jury of eight women and one man. A jury convicted him, 9-0, of the crime. The trial before Justice Vera Watkins lasted nearly two weeks.