A 67-year-old pensioner, who is currently serving 19 years’ imprisonment for raping a 16-year-old girl in 2017, is now moving to the Appeal Court to have his conviction and sentence overturn.
George Robin, a former shop owner of West Coast Berbice, on June 25, 2019, was found guilty by a 12-member jury of engaging in sexual penetration with a 16-year-old girl in 2017.
He was sentenced by Justice Brassington Reynolds at the Demerara High Court. Dissatisfied with his sentence, Robin, in his appeal, argued that the trial Judge erred in law.
During his sentencing hearing in 2019, a probation officer told the court that villagers in Robin’s community said that he was known for his perverted behaviour towards young girls in the community.

It was revealed that Robin was involved in a relationship with an underaged girl in the village and she later gave birth to a child for him but the matter was never reported to the police.
The probation officer had explained that Robin operated a shop at a nearby primary school in the village and, based on reports, he would request kisses from the school girls.
The probation officer reported that Robin committed the act on a Grade Three child and when a teacher confronted him, he said he was showing the girl his dentures.
The probation officer had described Robin as “vain and vulgar.”