Office of the President (OP) communications coordinator Kwame McCoy yesterday said that he plans to appeal his recent assault conviction as he views the outcome of the case as a “classic case of the miscarriage of justice.”
McCoy told Stabroek News yesterday that there is a lot wrong with the way in which he was convicted of the offences, which stemmed from a row over his removing election campaign posters on October 25, last year.
On Tuesday, McCoy was convicted of assaulting and threatening Clifton Stewart, at the end of a trial at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The case against him was that during an argument on