“The State implores this honourable court not to allow convicted Sean Watson to see the light of day until he has served at least 25 years.”Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Donna Babb-Agard SC made this submission in the No. 2 Supreme Court as she recommended a harsh custodial sentence for the man who stalked his estranged wife for months before breaking into her home and killing her in the bedroom they once shared.Watson, 46, of Bannantyne Gardens, Christ Church, had previously pleaded guilty to non-capital murder in the stabbing death of 37-year-old Nicole Harrison-Watson on April 28, 2012.Describing the killer’s actions as “calculated” and “heinous”, the DPP submitted a starting sentence of 35 years, calling the defence’s starting point of 25 to 30 years “way too lenient” in this matter.“We must decide if we are not dealing with a man who is truly evil sitting in that dock,” she stressed.As she identified Watson’s early guilty plea and the delay in bringing the matter to trial as two mitigating factors, the prosecutor told Justice Randall Worrell that the convicted man should not benefit from the full one-third discount or a seven-year discount for the delay suggested by Watson’s defence attorney Bryan Weekes.
