The Guyana Court of Appeal yesterday affirmed a 23-year sentence imposed upon Calvin Ramcharran who in 2012 raped and viciously beat a woman during the act.
As opposed to contentions raised in his appeal, the appellate court found that the trial judge had given the jury sufficient directions in the case levelled against Ramcharran, thereby finding his grounds of appeal to have lacked merit.
By a majority of 11 to 1, a jury in 2015 found him guilty as charged of rape and assault causing actual bodily harm.
