ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Lyndon Amsterdam has moved to the Appeal court to challenge the conviction and sentence handed down on two of his clients, who are currently serving life imprisonment on a joint murder charge.

Alvin Kissoon, formerly of Caneville, Grove, East Bank Demerara, and Calvin King, formerly of Savage Street, North East La Penitence were, in December 2019, sentenced by High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon, after being found guilty by a 12-member jury.

They were found guilty of the indictment which read that, on January 18, 2013, at Lethem, they murdered Christopher John Friday in the course of, or, in the furtherance of, a robbery.
In addition to their sentence, the Judge ordered that the men serve 32 years behind bars before any consideration for parole.

Attorneys-at-law Amsterdam is contending that the trial judge, during the summation of the evidence to the jury, posited several rhetorical questions to the jury which had an effect of leading them (the jury) to conclude that Kissoon and King were guilty of the offence of murder.

It was also contended that the trial Judge, in the summing up of the evidence, was not fair.
Finally, the trial judge misled the jury as to the elements and law, with regards to joint enterprise and acting in concert, in the indictment, alleging a felony/murder.

According to reports, the two accused committed the crime at the Lethem Post Office where they torched several safes and stole 9.82M on January 18, 2013. The men tied up Friday, who was a security guard, beat him and, as a result, he died.

During the investigation, the two accused were intercepted at a police stop point with some of the money, and a number of Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T) phone cards.