A 51-year-old man from Siparia has been sen­tenced to death for mur­der­ing a pen­sion­er fol­low­ing a bar brawl in 2008. 

The death penal­ty was read to Robert Tay­lor, of Mendez Vil­lage, Siparia, yes­ter­day af­ter he was found guilty of the crime by Jus­tice Car­la Brown-An­toine at the end of a judge-alone tri­al. 

Tay­lor was ac­cused of mur­der­ing 75-year-old Knol­ly Nicholas, a fa­ther of eight from Coo­ra Set­tle­ment Trace, Siparia, on May 23, 2008. 

Tay­lor and Nicholas were re­port­ed­ly lim­ing at a bar in the com­mu­ni­ty when they were in­volved in an al­ter­ca­tion. Nicholas left the bar af­ter be­ing hit sev­er­al times and Tay­lor fol­lowed him. 

Tay­lor al­leged­ly at­tacked Nicholas and struck him on his head with a stone. 

Nicholas walked a short dis­tance be­fore col­laps­ing. He died on the scene. 

An au­top­sy per­formed by pathol­o­gist Dr East­lyn Mc Don­ald-Bur­ris showed that Nicholas died from haem­or­rhag­ing due to blunt force trau­ma in­juries to his head. 

Dur­ing his tri­al, which be­gan in May, the State led the ev­i­dence of 18 wit­ness­es, 11 of whom are still alive. 

Tay­lor was rep­re­sent­ed by Rekha Ramjit, while Veon­na Neal-Munroe pros­e­cut­ed.