THE Court of Appeal is expected to hand down, soon, its judgement in the case of Travis Dougal, who is challenging his conviction and 25-year sentence for killing a miner during the furtherance of an armed robbery in 2014.

On Friday, during a brief hearing, Chancellor (Ag) of the Judiciary, Yonette Cummings-Edwards and Justices of Appeal Rishi Persaud and Dawn Gregory, reserved their judgement in the case. A date will soon be set.

In 2017, McDougal was tried before Justice Navindra Singh and a jury for the August 18, 2014 murder of Ashok Ragghu. However, the jury found McDougal guilty of the lesser count of manslaughter and he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for the crime.

McDougal later moved to the Court of Appeal with the aid of his attorney, Nigel Hughes, and associates, claiming that his conviction cannot stand. He is asking that his sentence be set aside since it was unfair, too severe, and excessive.

McDougal was convicted of shooting the Kitty businessman and injuring his wife, Shyrazadi, at around 13:30 hours at the traffic lights at the junction of Regent Street and Vlissengen Road, in the vicinity of the Botanical Gardens.

The convict’s accomplice grabbed a haversack containing $4M, but Shyrazadi held on to it even as she was shot in the thigh. Ragghu was later pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

In July 2015, McDougal was committed to stand trial for murder along with pork-knocker, Jermaine Otto, who was one of the prisoners who perished in the deadly Camp Street Prison fire which erupted following riots in March 2016. Government Pathologist, Dr. Nehaul Singh, had testified that the cause of death of Ragghu was a perforated lung due to a gunshot.