Sentenced in 2015 to 20 years behind bars for spearing a man to his chest with a pitchfork, Deon Braithwaite has filed an appeal to the Guyana Court of Appeal, arguing among other things, that his sentence is severe and the case was prejudiced.
Though initially indicted with attempting to murder Safraz Gani on October 29, 2012, a jury found Braithwaite guilty on the offence of felonious wounding, for which he was sentenced to 20 years by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow.
Through his attorney Glenn Hanoman, however, Braithwaite is arguing before acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justices of Appeal Rishi Persaud and Dawn Gregory, that the sentence is “unduly severe” in all circumstances.
