The Court of Appeal on Monday quashed serial killer Cordell Farrington's life sentence and ordered him resentenced.
Farrington, 46, will appear before the Supreme Court for a sentencing hearing in relation to his conviction for the death of his lover, Jamal Robins in 2002.

Initially convicted of murder in Robins' death, the charge was substituted with one of manslaughter on appeal in 2008.
The murder conviction could not be sustained because Farrington was suffering from a severe personality defect and could not form the intention to kill, which is required to sustain a murder conviction, the court held.

The appellate court quashed his death sentence and sentenced him to life imprisonment. He is benefitting from a recent Privy Council decision in the case of Dominique Moss that determined that arguments on the appropriate sentence should have been heard.

Prosecutor Ambrose Armbrister took the position that there was no need for a resentencing hearing as the court could reach no other conclusion on sentence, given the circumstances of the case.

In any event, the sentencing hearing will be an academic exercise as Farrington is serving four life sentences in relation to the kidnappings and killing of four boys.

In 2010, Farrington pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the deaths of Junior Reme, Mackinson Colas, Desmond Rolle and Deangelo McKenzie and was sentenced to four life sentences. Moss was released from prison last May on a resentencing that was ordered by the Privy Council in November 2013.

The Privy Council found that the appellate court should have heard arguments on resentencing when Moss was sentenced to 25 years after the court quashed his conviction for the 2000 murder of Samantha Moss and substituted it with one of manslaughter because he was drunk when the crime was committed. Moss was unable to form the intention to kill required for a murder conviction due to his drunkenness.

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