– on grounds of no real supporting evidence

LLOYD Rampersaud, who was sentenced to 70 years imprisonment in 2013 for the murder of Munilall Mangru, whose body was found under a bridge at Triumph, has filed an appeal on both his conviction and his sentence.

The hearing took place on Tuesday morning at the Guyana Court of Appeal before Acting Chancellor Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justices of Appeal Rishi Persaud and Dawn Gregory.

Rampersaud’s attorney, George Thomas, said that there were discrepancies in the evidence presented in court during the trial and that there was the absence of any real evidence to support that his client injured or killed the deceased.

Rampersaud had been jointly charged for murder along with his brother, Roy Rampersaud, and on March 8, 2013. The jury returned with a guilty verdict for only Lloyd, as such, his sibling was freed.

The body of Munilall Mangru, 42, a grass cutter who earned extra income by doing miscellaneous jobs, was discovered under the bridge that joins Mon Repos to Triumph, East Coast Demerara.

Due to Mangru’s battered face and the positioning of the body beneath the bridge, many persons suspect there may have been foul play involved in his death.
A fisherman made the discovery while he was casting his net in the trench, and summoned the police.