BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Sept. 25, 2025
  Tonight, Clement Bol, Jr. begins to serve his life sentence for the 2014 murder of 16-year-old Chrislin Gladden, the Wesley Junior College student who met a horrific death in the Lord Ridge Cemetery, where she was stabbed 32 times after being lured to her death.
  While Bol, Jr. was handed down a life sentence today by Justice Antoinette Moore, his co- accused, Ashley Meighan, remains a fugitive after absconding on November 30, 2022, three years ago, on the day that her verdict was to be handed down in the High Court.
  Bol, Jr., who was represented today in court by attorney Javier Williams, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole until after he has served 25 years in prison.
 The five plus years that Bol spent on remand will be deducted from his sentence, but the calculation of the complete time he will spend in prison is ongoing, since Bol committed another offense in 2018. He had been charged for the offense of abetment to murder, even though that charge resulted in a nolle prosequi back on June 9, 2023.
  Bol was the boyfriend of Ashley Meighan at the time of the murder in 2014.
 The couple later gave birth to a set of twins.
 The two had been charged jointly with Gladden’s murder.
  Ashley Meighan, on November 30, 2022, was found guilty along with Bol, Jr. for the murder, but Meighan never showed up in court for her verdict.
 The court, in the wake of her absconding whilst out on bail and with the presumption that she had left the country, had delayed the sentencing of the couple for over three years.
 And so, almost 3 years after a guilty verdict for murder was handed down, the court, in light of the inability of the police to locate Meighan, decided to wait no longer to pass down sentencing.
 Bol had appeared in court most recently on Thursday, July 31, 2025 in Belize City, but the matter was adjourned again for today so that his SIR (Social Inquiry Report), Antecedent and psychiatric evaluation, could be prepared and submitted along with an Impact Statement Report, and other necessary reports requested by the judge.
  At the sentencing today, Justice Moore heard the last remarks from Bol, Jr., in which he expressed some remorse after he offered condolences to the family of Gladden.
 Inside the court to hear Bol’s expressions of regret was Gladden’s mother.
 Unfortunately, Gladden’s father, Byron Samuels, did not live to see today’s outcome, as he passed away before her trial could conclude with today’s life sentence.
 But the father, who was a well-known cyclist in Belize, was present at the start of the trial of the persons responsible for his daughter’s death, and the family was hoping for justice, which they somewhat got today.
  Bol, Jr. was 23 when he and Meighan, then 17, were accused of the murder of Gladden, which occurred in August 2014.
  The trial of Bol and Meighan had commenced in the Belize City High Court back in July 2021; and on Monday, September 13, 2021, Justice Moore ruled in a no-case submission that both Bol and Meighan had a case to answer to.
 In 2022, she found them both guilty of murder.
 The two accused persons were tried and convicted at the end of their trial for the August 2014 murder of Wesley Junior College student, 16-year-old Chryslin Gladden, who was stabbed multiple times at the Lord Ridge Cemetery.
  The Crown was represented in court by Pirsha Staine-Ferguson, while Javier Williams represented Clement Bol, Jr. at the sentencing.
  August of this year marks 11 years since Gladden’s murder.
