Killer mom to be re-sentenced next month

When the sentencing review hearing was called last week Friday, Jones completed hearing legal submissions and indicated that she would have given a written ruling yesterday.

Attorneys for the State and Ramdeen had submitted the factors to be considered to Jones on the sentence Ramdeen should serve.

Ramdeen was convicted and sentenced to hang on January 14, 1997, for killing her two stepchildren — seven-year-old Sabrina Hemawatee Dass and eight-year-old Toolsie Varun Dass.

After Ramdeen, of Perseverance Road, Freeport, had spent six years on Death Row, Justice Peter Jamadar ruled on a constitutional motion that the mandatory death sentence imposed on her was unconstitutional. The judgment was handed down in accordance with the Privy Council’s ruling in Pratt and Morgan which blocked killers from going to the gallows after more than five years on Death Row without trial.

Ramdeen took the two children from school around midday on October 25, 1993. She took them to her Freeport home where she killed them in the bathroom.

She then buried them behind her house in a manure heap.

An autopsy found that the children had died of blunt force trauma to the head. Yesterday, Ramdeen was brought from prison for the re-sentencing hearing. Jones said she needed more time and postponed the matter to March 3.