A Corentyne butcher, who was sentenced to 15 years for the brutal killing of 76-year-old Henry Lallman in August 2015, has filed an appeal against his conviction and sentencing, deeming it “severe.”
Initially indicted for murder, Asif Hamid, 27, opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter, thereby admitting that between July 27 and 30, 2015, at Lot 34 Kingston, Corriverton, Corentyne, he unlawfully killed Lallman.
As a result, he was sentenced to 15 years by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall in the High Court.
Dissatisfied with his sentence and conviction, the 27-year-old, through his attorney Mursalene Bacchus moved to the Court of Appeal, claiming that the sentence imposed by Justice Morris-Ramlall was “severe” and “harsh.”
He further complained that he was not allowed to address the court.
Reports are that Lallman went to Hamid’s home to uplift monies owed to him when he was lured into the yard and killed.
Police then stumbled upon the man’s partially decomposed body after they were informed that he had gone to Hamid’s home and never returned.
The man’s body was discovered in a shallow grave under a mango tree in Hamid’s yard. A Post-Mortem Examination (PME) revealed that the elderly man died from strangulation.
