DEATH row inmate, Herman Ally, called ‘Shark Oil’, who was found guilty of killing his fellow Rose Hall Town villager in 2006, had his conviction and sentence set aside by the Guyana Court of Appeal.

The Appellate Court replaced the conviction for murder with a conviction for manslaughter, for which it imposed an 18-year sentence on Ally.
The appeal was heard by Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag), Yonette Cummings-Edwards, Justice of Appeal, Dawn Gregory, and High Court judge, Brassington Reynolds. The ruling was handed down on Friday, August 14, 2020.

The Court also ordered that the time Ally spent in jail from the time of his arrest in 2006, must be deducted from the sentence.
In 2012, Ally was ‘handed’ the death sentence by Justice Roxanne George at the Berbice High Court, after he was found guilty by a 12-member jury for the capital offence of murder
It was stated that between October 5 and 6, 2006, at Rose Hall Town, Ally killed Sandy.
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he prosecution’s case, though circumstantial, included a dying declaration, in which Roydel Sandy told Danny Goberdan that ‘Shark Oil bore me’, and a caution statement in which Ali confessed to killing his fellow villager, after he had intervened in a matter .
Ali had told investigators that, while he was in front of his yard, Marva, a neighbour, started to verbally abuse him and then chucked him, prior to questioning him about a matter at the lower court, in which the magistrate had given him time to pay a fine for an offence.
“After she chucked me, I chucked her back. Her daughter came with a knife and Roydel intervened and I bore his belly.”