PAUL Abrams, who is currently serving 25 years behind bars for buggery and indecent assault of a 17-year-old girl, has moved to the Court of Appeal seeking to have his conviction and sentence overturned.

In 2016, Justice Jo-Ann Barlow sentenced Abrams to serve 25 years in prison after a 12-member jury found him guilty of buggery; he was also sentenced to four years for indecent assault. The sentences will run concurrently.
According to reports, on December 5, 2007, Abrams lured the young lady to a room where he proceeded to sexually assault and sodomise her.

In his appeal, Abrams claimed that the trial Judge erred on several pertinent issues leading up to the verdict in the High Court. As it relates to the severity of sentence, Abrams claimed that the trial judge erred in law by failing to apply case law principles that promote fairness in sentencing.

The appeal comes up for hearing at the Guyana Court of Appeal on February 2, 2021.