Former security guard pleads guilty to Manslaughter

A former security guard who was charged with the Murder of his wife today pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of Manslaughter in the Supreme Court. Justice Adolph Lucas has deferred sentencing for Cecil Gabourel for January twenty-sixth after his attorney Simeon Sampson presents a mitigation plea on his behalf. The facts, as presented by Crown Counsel Trinia Young are that around six p.m. on Christmas Day, 2006, Gabourel arrived home apparently intoxicated and his wife, Carol Gabourel was in the kitchen preparing food. One of their children, an eleven year-old boy, who was in the living room watching television, told police that Gabourel went to the kitchen and his mother told him not to eat the ham. But Gabourel went ahead and ate the ham and his mother pulled a broom and hit him. The boy said that his mother told Gabourel that she was going out and went to the front of the house after a grey Trooper had stopped for her. Gabourel, in a drunken rage, reportedly threatened to kill her and the driver of the Trooper. When the boy’s mother returned to the yard Gabourel met her and stabbed her in the chest, then got on his bicycle and rode to the Raccoon Street Police Station where he confessed to what he had done. Carol Gabourel, a cook at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, died about fifteen minutes after he arrived there for treatment.