Sentencing delayed for Clifford and Russel Hyde

Meanwhile, two men convicted of manslaughter will have to wait a little bit longer to learn their fate. Clifford and Russel Hyde, convicted on December twenty-first in connection with the June 2004 killing of Allison Castillo, appeared for sentencing in the courtroom of Justice Troadio Gonzalez this morning, but attorney Ellis Arnold asked the judge for more time to assemble testimony for the men’s mitigation plea. A new date of January sixteenth was granted. The Hydes and two others were originally charged with murder but the jury of ten women and two men acquitted the two other defendants and convicted Clifford and Russel of the lesser crime of manslaughter. The fatal stabbing of Castillo occurred as the result of a fight in a Belmopan bar.