Former Barama Company Limited supervisor Paul Abrams, who is currently serving a 25-year sentence, is of the view that his convictions for sodomizing and indecently assaulting a 17-year-old girl were “perverse,” given her chronology of events.
Convicted of those two counts which Abrams noted the complainant had said preceded the act of rape she alleged against him and for which he was found not guilty, his position is that the verdicts were perverse.
Abrams’ challenge to the convictions consumed the greater part of an almost two-hour hearing yesterday morning before the Guyana Court of Appeal, where his attorney Nigel Hughes questioned the plausibility of his client being convicted of the first two counts and not that of rape.
