Let’s Talk: Your views on sentence for mass murderer, Rushane Barnett? Loop Jamaica

Black Immigrant Daily News

Confessed mass murderer Rushane Barnett was on Thursday given five life sentences by a Home Circuit Court judge who referred to the murders he committed as being beyond “adjectives and descriptions”.

And as people across the country try to come to terms with the gruesome act carried out by the 23-year-old man and also how the court has responded regarding sentencing, the Loop News team took to the streets in downtown Kingston to hear from citizens as they reacted to the news that the confessed murderer received multiple life sentences.

Barnett will be eligible for parole after 61 years and eight months. The accused man pleaded guilty and was convicted on five counts of murder in July.

Barrett killed his cousins Kimesha Wright, 31, and her children Kimanda Smith, 15, Shara-Lee Smith, 10, Rafaella Smith, five, and 23-month-old Kishawn Henry in Cocoa Piece district, Clarendon in June this year. They were his cousins.

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