Men serving 81 years for murder file appeal
Dead: Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris
Dead: Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris

FOUR men, who are each serving 81 years in prison for the gruesome murder of 72-year-old, Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, have moved to the Court of Appeal seeking to have their conviction and sentence overturned.
Convicted are Orwin Hinds of Mocha, East Bank Demerara (EBD); Kevin October of Agricola EBD; Cleon Hinds; and Roy Jacobs of Evans Street, Charlestown, Georgetown.

In November 2015, Justice Navindra Singh, at the Demerara High Court, sentenced the quartet after a 12-member jury found them guilty of the offence. Dissatisfied with the conviction and sentence, the men moved to the appeal court, arguing that the trial was unfair, the judge erred in law and that the sentence was unduly severe. The men are also contending that the trial judge admitted evidence that was prejudicial to a fair trial.
The appeal comes up for hearing at the Guyana Court of Appeal on January 28, 2021.

The Guyana Chronicle had reported that the four men murdered Fiedtkou-Parris pursuant to an arrangement whereby money was to be passed from one person to another.

On the evening of June 30, 2011, two men went to Fiedtkou-Parris’ Robb Street, Georgetown house and asked for ‘Auntie’, a title by which she was called. They were directed up a sidestep and as Fiedtkou-Parris emerged from her bedroom, one of the men pulled out a gun and shot her several times to the upper part of her body.
The men then escaped into a waiting car while the injured woman was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

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