A Jamaican man who was imprisoned for 18 years in Bermuda after being convicted of importing heroin, has failed in his bid to have his sentence reduced.
Omar Davy, a 40-year-old resident of Mandeville, Manchester in Jamaica, cited “bad legal advice” for his decision to not initially plead guilty to the charge against him in Bermuda.
On that premise, he argued through his attorney in March, that his sentence should have been reduced.
In 2019, Davy was convicted in the Bermuda Supreme Court for possession of 220.88 grams of heroin worth US$765,700 on a flight from Toronto, Canada a year earlier.
Not satisfied with his sentence, Davy headed to the island s Court of Appeal, hoping that his jail time would be reduced.
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A Jamaican national who was imprisoned for 18 years in Bermuda after he was convicted of importing heroin, has cited “bad legal advice” for his decision to not initially plead guilty to the charge.
Against that background, the convict, 40-year-old Omar Davy of Mandeville, Manchester, argued through his new attorney, that his sentence should have been reduced when he appeared in the Bermuda Court of Appeal earlier this month.
It was reported that the Jamaican fled from customs officers at Bermuda s international airport after they found the drug in his luggage on July 10, 2018.
He was, however, quickly apprehended after a security officer on a motorcycle intercepted a truck that Davy had flagged down and boarded in his bid to escape.
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