Lowering the jail terms yesterday against the convicts in the murder of Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, the Guyana Court of Appeal for the second day in a row criticised the base sentence of 60 years applied by Justice Navindra Singh
While the superior court upheld directions given by the trial judge in the conduct of the case, it reiterated the absence of reasons behind the 60-year base sentence used by Judge Singh for murder.
In the court’s ruling on the appeal filed by brothers Orwin and Cleon Hinds and Roy Jacobs, who were each serving an 81-year sentence for the 2011 murder of Fiedtkou-Parris who they were hired to kill, acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards lamented the deviation from guidelines and the absence of reasons from Justice Singh in arriving at the 60-year base sentence.
