Man to serve 4 years, 9 months for killing man wit hatchet in 2007
Friday 30 April 2021
The Court of Appeal has substituted a verdict of manslaughter for a man convicted of killing another man with a hatchet in 2007.
The judges allowed his appeal and quashed Vishnu Beharry s conviction.
Selivering their decision at a virtual hearing on Thursday, Justices of Appeal Alice Yorke-Soo Hon, Gillian Lucky and Malcolm Holdip said it was a fitting case to substitute the conviction of manslaughter, since the judge erred and he was deprived of the opportunity to have the jury consider the lesser charge.
They found merit in three of the six grounds of appeal filed on his behalf,
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