Sentenced to a total of 37 years back in 2015 for raping a young girl on three occasions, Linton Pompey yesterday had his sentence reduced to 17 years after the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in a majority judgment found it to be severe.
Allowing Pompey’s appeal in part, the Trinidad-based court of last resort affirmed the sentences of five, 15 and 17 years imposed by the Guyana Court of Appeal, but ordered that they run concurrently.
The final appellate court, however, made several observations and called for judges of the local courts to conform to established guidelines and precedent aimed at arriving at a standard of consistency in sentences they impose.
