Court upholds child rapist’s conviction, 28-year sentence

Colvin Norton

Both the conviction and 28-year sentence imposed upon child rapist Colvin Norton were yesterday affirmed by the Guyana Court of Appeal.

He had been found guilty of raping a six-year-old girl.

The appellate court found that contrary to arguments advanced by Norton, his conviction was neither unsafe nor unfair and that in the circumstances of his case, the 28 years were warranted and therefore not excessive.