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05/09/2005
Police officer jailed for Guyana killing
A British police constable has been sentenced to two years in prison at the Old Bailey, for the killing of a man in Guyana over 20 years ago.
PC Michael Cheong, 42, from Woodbridge, Suffolk, was convicted last month of the manslaughter of 20-year-old Brian Spencer in 1982. The jury cleared him of murder.
Mr Cheong shot Mr Spencer, a convicted criminal, after he robbed his wife, Sandra, and attempted to sexually assault her sister. He was not charged with murder in Guyana, because his wife could not testify against him and because police believed he had not intended to kill Mr Spencer.
Mr Cheong, who was born in Surrey, returned to Britain in 1984, where he joined the army and later the police force. He now faces dismissal from Suffolk Police.
Mr Cheong was charged with the killing of Mr Spencer in 2003, under a rarely used 1861 law, which allows UK citizens to be tried for murder or manslaughter regardless of the country in which the crime was committed.
The jury at the trial heard that Mr Cheong’s wife, had turned him in to police for the crime, following the breakdown of their marriage.
At sentencing, Judge Paul Focke said that he had dealt with Mr Cheong “as leniently as possible”, as it appeared that his wife had “acted partly or mainly out of revenge for what she believed she suffered”.
(KMcA/SP)
PC Michael Cheong, 42, from Woodbridge, Suffolk, was convicted last month of the manslaughter of 20-year-old Brian Spencer in 1982. The jury cleared him of murder.
Mr Cheong shot Mr Spencer, a convicted criminal, after he robbed his wife, Sandra, and attempted to sexually assault her sister. He was not charged with murder in Guyana, because his wife could not testify against him and because police believed he had not intended to kill Mr Spencer.
Mr Cheong, who was born in Surrey, returned to Britain in 1984, where he joined the army and later the police force. He now faces dismissal from Suffolk Police.
Mr Cheong was charged with the killing of Mr Spencer in 2003, under a rarely used 1861 law, which allows UK citizens to be tried for murder or manslaughter regardless of the country in which the crime was committed.
The jury at the trial heard that Mr Cheong’s wife, had turned him in to police for the crime, following the breakdown of their marriage.
At sentencing, Judge Paul Focke said that he had dealt with Mr Cheong “as leniently as possible”, as it appeared that his wife had “acted partly or mainly out of revenge for what she believed she suffered”.
(KMcA/SP)
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