HANSEL Andre Lewis, who is currently serving 13 years for attempted muder, has moved to the Court of Appeal to have his conviction and sentence overturned.
In 2016, Lewis, known as “Smiley,” was sentenced by Justice Brassington Reynolds after a jury convicted him of killing Chris Burrowes during the wee hours of January 01, 2013 at the Rainbow Bar in Charles Place, New Amsterdam.
Lewis moved to the Court of Appeal claiming that his conviction cannot stand. He is asking that his sentence be set aside since it was unfair, too severe, and excessive.
According to reports, on the day in question, the men were consuming alcoholic beverages. Burrowes claimed that Lewis was smoking “something which was high-scented” and asked him to remove from next to him.
Burrowes subsequently left the bar and walked some distance to urinate. He was in the process of zipping up his pants when Lewis removed a two-inch broad, plastic handled knife from his left side pocket and quickly stabbed him on his right side neck.
Burrowes was taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit and remained a patient for almost a month before he succumbed to his injury.