The CCJ yesterday set aside the Guyana Court of Appeal’s sentence of 50 years imprisonment for brothers Orwin and Cleon Hinds who in 2015 were convicted of the 2011 murder of Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris and instead imposed the man-datory sentence of life in prison with eligibility for parole after 20 years, inclusive of the time spent on remand.
Delivering the decision, which came months after the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) dismissed an appeal by the brothers against their conviction was Justice Denys Barrow.
“This Court found that a sentencing court has no power to impose a sentence that is intended to be more severe than life imprisonment which is the maximum sentence,” Justice Barrow noted in the ruling.
