Herman Ally, who was sentenced to death in 2012 for murder, yesterday had his sentence commuted to 18 years, with the time spent behind bars to be further deducted, after the Court of Appeal upheld his challenge to his conviction on the capital charge.
Ally, called ‘Shark Oil,’ had been convicted by a jury for the 2006 murder of Roydel Sandy, whom he had stabbed and was sentenced to death by hanging by Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire at the High Court in Berbice.
He would later appeal his conviction and sentence, while arguing among other things that the judge misdirected the jury on the law of self defence and admitted into evidence a caution statement which according to him, “ought properly to have been excluded.”
