ON March 11, the Court of Appeal is expected to commence hearing arguments into the appeal of four persons who are seeking to overturn their 81 years’ jail sentence and conviction for the gruesome murder of 72-year-old, Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris.
Convicted for the murder 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.

On Thursday, the case came up before Chancellor (ag), Yonette Cummings-Edwards, Justice Dawn Gregory and, Justice Rishi Persaud for Case Management Conference and a date was set for the hearing of arguments. The State will be represented by the prosecutor, Teshana Lake.
Orwin Hinds is represented by Attorney, George Thomas while Kevin October and Cleon Hinds are represented by Adrian Thompson. Roy Jacobs was represented by Attorney, Dexter Todd.
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.