'Beachy Stout' sentenced to life in prison for wife's murder

Portland Businessman Everton 'Beachy Stout' McDonald and Oscar Barnes, the man who murdered McDonald's wife, were both sentenced to life in prison and will each have to serve 28 years and 11 months before being eligible for parole.

The 70-year-old businessman was also sentenced to four years and six months' imprisonment for conspiracy while and 33-year-old tiler was sentence to six years and six months for conspiracy.

The men, who were this afternoon sentenced by Justice Chester Stamp were both found guilty in March of the murder of Tonia McDonald.

The 32-year-old woman's partially burnt body was found on a deserted road in Sherwood Forest in Portland in July 2020.

It had nine stab wounds and the throat was slashed.

A contract killer, Denvalyn Minott, who is serving 19 years in prison for his role in her murder,  had testified that 'Beachy Stout' hired him to kill his wife for $3 million, but that he passed on the work to Barnes.

Minott testified that he and Barnes made about four unsuccessful trips to Tonia's house to kill her before he lured her to the area, where she was murdered, under the pretence that he had secured two guns that she was seeking to purchase.

The court heard that Tonia wanted to purchase a gun to avenge her father's death and that her husband introduced her to Minott for his assistance.

Barnes and Beachy Stout have both denied killing the woman or being apart of a murder conspiracy.

Attorneys-at-law Christopher Townsend, Courtney Rowe, John Jacobs, Earl Hamilton and his son, Jon-Paul, are representing Beachy Stout.

Attorney-at-law Ernest Davis and Vincent Wellesley are representing Barnes.

- Tanesha Mundle

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