Sentenced to 56 years for the 2017 murder of his neighbour Courtney Porter, Foster Gravesande is appealing both his conviction and sentence which he argues is severe.
In his appeal lodged with the Guyana Court of Appeal, Gravesande argues among other things that the jury’s verdict was unreasonable and cannot be supported having regard to the evidence.
He contends, too, that trial judge Navindra Singh did not give a balanced summation of his case to the jury, did not properly put his defence to the panel and failed to sufficiently address what he called “the many deficiencies in the prosecution’s case.”
