Neal cops a plea, gets 20 years for manslaughter

In Supreme Court News, the man accused in the murder of his common-law wife last year received a long prison sentence but not for the original charge. Rudolph Neal was charged with murdering Lorna Young and burying her body in a shallow grave behind a house on Police street, sometime between December Sixteenth, 1996 and January Twenty First, 1997. On Wednesday of this week, Defense Attorney Simeon Sampson offered a plea bargain on his client’s behalf, which was accepted by Director of Public Prosecutions, Adolph Lucas. Neal then pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. This afternoon, Justice Manuel Sosa sentenced Neal to twenty years in prison, retroactive to the date of his arrest in January of 1997.