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Hope someone can help here.
A white English man, planation owner in British Guiana, has shot one of his Indian workers and is pleading self defense, that the worker was armed with a cutlass. But he wasn't.
Unknown to everyone else, the man's daughter (18 years) has witnessed the shooting and she knows the worker was unarmed.
She and her father have seriously fallen out about something else. In fact, he has banished her to Barbados.
Till now she has kept silent, but now she realises that she she should be a witness for the prosecution, that she cannot let her dad get away with murder. Her dad, she has discovered previously, is a very cruel plantation owner and he has already been able to avoid the law after a whipping incident.
She wants to speak out, but realises her dad would probably get the death penalty. Much as she is estranged from him, she did once love him and doesn't want to cause his death.
Would it be possible to somehow arrange with the prosecutor for her to testify, as long as he gets (life?) imprisonment and not death? A kind of plea bargain for the witness? Or, could it be construed as manslaughter, which would not carry a death penalty?
Surely if he was carrying a gun (he doesn't usually) it was premeditated? Or maybe he shot the guy under stress, or thought he was carrying a weapon.
I don't want readers to hate the girl for handing in her father. But she need to hand him in. Maybe he could be sent back to England to sit out the prison sentence, as there is danger that the local prisoners might kill him.
A white English man, planation owner in British Guiana, has shot one of his Indian workers and is pleading self defense, that the worker was armed with a cutlass. But he wasn't.
Unknown to everyone else, the man's daughter (18 years) has witnessed the shooting and she knows the worker was unarmed.
She and her father have seriously fallen out about something else. In fact, he has banished her to Barbados.
Till now she has kept silent, but now she realises that she she should be a witness for the prosecution, that she cannot let her dad get away with murder. Her dad, she has discovered previously, is a very cruel plantation owner and he has already been able to avoid the law after a whipping incident.
She wants to speak out, but realises her dad would probably get the death penalty. Much as she is estranged from him, she did once love him and doesn't want to cause his death.
Would it be possible to somehow arrange with the prosecutor for her to testify, as long as he gets (life?) imprisonment and not death? A kind of plea bargain for the witness? Or, could it be construed as manslaughter, which would not carry a death penalty?
Surely if he was carrying a gun (he doesn't usually) it was premeditated? Or maybe he shot the guy under stress, or thought he was carrying a weapon.
I don't want readers to hate the girl for handing in her father. But she need to hand him in. Maybe he could be sent back to England to sit out the prison sentence, as there is danger that the local prisoners might kill him.
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