BELIZE CITY, Tues. Jan. 28, 2020– Mexican national Anabel Kumul, 42, who pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter, was sentenced to 15 years today by Justice Colin Williams. Justice Williams stipulated that because she pleaded guilty, she was entitled to a reduction of a third of her sentence, which resulted in an actual prison sentence of 10 years.
Also, he deducted 5 years and 6 months — which was the time she had spent on remand — from her sentence. As a result, the remaining time she must spend in prison is 4 years and 6 months.
Kumul had killed her common-law husband, Felix Alamilla, 28, the father of their 2 children, about 5:30 a.m. on July 23, 2014. She went to the residence of one of his friends in San Pedro Town and had found him sleeping on a couch.
While he was still in a stupor, she took a knife and stabbed him three times — once in the left side of his chest, once in the left side of his head, and once in his left thigh. A post-mortem exam revealed that the wound to the head was superficial, and that Alamilla died from the wound to his thigh.
After the incident Kumul had given a caution statement to police, in which, she said that she had gone to Chetumal to visit her father and when she called Felix, whom she had left in San Pedro Town, she got no response and she concluded that he had gone on one of his drinking sprees.
She said that she went to San Pedro and found him at the residence of one of his friends. She said she got so angry that she stabbed him, but she did not believe that he would have died.
She also said that she met Felix in 2004 in Chetumal when he was at a rehabilitation center, and they became romantically involved and went to live in San Pedro.
Before he decided that 15 years was the starting point for her sentence, Justice Williams heard an impact assessment statement from Felix’s sister, Barbara Alamilla that was read by Crown Counsel Portia Ferguson.
Justice Williams also heard a plea for mitigation from Kumul’s attorney, Simeon Sampson, through whom she expressed remorse for what she did.
Feature photo: Anabel Kumul