The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

SENTENCING has been deferred for a man convicted of attempted murder and armed robbery.

His victim was shot in the back after she asked for directions to a colleague’s home.

Justice Bernard Turner delayed 31-year-old Tamiko Arthur’s sentencing to Friday, November 30 when a psychiatric report on Arthur will be read out in court.

Arthur’s attorney, James Thompson, asked that the report be prepared before sentencing in connection with the April 17, 2010, incident.

According to trial testimony, the victim Inga Trotman had stopped to ask for directions when she could not find her colleague’s home in Pinewood Gardens.

The evidence revealed that Arthur agreed to help her a find a church in the area.

He got into the driver’s seat of her vehicle, but instead of driving to the church, he put a gun to Trotman’s back and pulled the trigger before leaving the woman to die as he pulled off in her car.

Trotman was left paralysed and the bullet remains inches away from her heart.

The request for a mental examination of Arthur came after relatives claimed a beating he suffered in 1998, which left him comatose for three months, caused him to suffer personality changes and memory loss.

A person convicted on attempted murder or armed robbery could face up to life imprisonment.

Arthur was unanimously convicted of both on July 9 of this year by a Supreme Court jury. Linda Evans prosecuted the case. Friday’s sentencing begins at 11.30am.