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LONDON, England (AFP): A police constable from Suffolk, in the east of England, was found guilty in a London court on Monday of the manslaughter of a suspected sex attacker in Guyana 23 years ago.
The shooting of convicted criminal Brian Spencer remained a secret between the police officer and his wife for two decades until their marriage went sour and she turned him in.
When aged 20 and living in Guyana in 1982, Michael Cheong had chased and confronted Spencer with a shotgun after he attacked and robbed his wife and tried to sexually assault her sister in 1982.
"Cheong opened fire and shot him in the back," prosecutor Mark Dennis told the Old Bailey criminal court in central London.
Cheong, 43, was found not guilty of murdering Spencer, 20, in the Linden Highway area of Guyana on August 1982, but jurors convicted him of manslaughter after deliberating for two hours and 35 minutes.
His family in the public gallery gasped in horror at the verdict.
Judge Paul Focke revoked Cheong's bail and remanded him in custody for sentence on September 5.
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