‘It was an accident. We all loved each other and it is not fair what’s happend to us’ said Celosia Mendes to the judges. Her husband (Sergio Mendes) has been killed by her father( Kenneth Bassarath) during violation at home. Kenneth Bassarath is acquitted of murder but is still found guilty of manslaugther. He was granted bail but faces a likely custodial term when he returns for sentence on 16 december.
Celosia called her father and also 999 for the police telling that her husband was trying to beat her up. The man was very angry and violated. She managed to lock her self up in the room where her 2 sons where sleeping and then called her father and 999.
Her father came and saw that his son-in-law was armed with a knife. He took a cricket bat and he took a swing with it to fend him off. Kenneth said that he really had not the intention to kill his son-in-law. According to the father, he was acting in self-defence. Celosia’s husband died three days later from brain injuries. She had just booked a family holiday to Florida, hoping that they could solve their marital problems.
After written 5 blogs, it must be clear that murder someone is not aloud. But like I already said we can’t judge a person in general, we have to ‘judge’ by looking to the unique situation of each person.
It’s a bit logical that Kenneth Bassarath, as a father, would defend his daughter and that his acting was impulsive. If it was a acting of self defend I don’t really know. I found it very hard to judge because we don’t know the whole situation. I believe that the father is not a ‘real killer’ and that he not had the intention to kill but the facts are that he did. There will have to be a punishment, taking into account the circumstances.
Source: The Independent, 18 November 2008, By John-Paul Ford Rojas
(http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/teacher-killed-soninlaw-with-cricket-bat-1024060.html)
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