–moves to redress it

COLLIN Allen, called ‘Bonus,’ who is currently doing time for the brutal murder, back in 2015, of 77-year-old Danrasie Ganesh is now challenging his conviction and sentence.

He was tried in 2019 in the Demerara High Court by Justice Navindra Singh for the capital offence, which alleged that on August 1, 2015, he murdered Ganesh, called “Carmen”, who’d lived alone at Lot 121, Montrose Public Road, East Coast Demerara. He was found guilty by a 12-member jury, and was sentenced to serve 100 years in prison.

Allen, in his Court of Appeal documents, is claiming that his conviction cannot stand, and as such is asking that his sentence be set aside, since it is unfair.

He is also arguing that the sentence is “manifestly excessive and severe” in all the circumstances of the case.

According to reports, on the day in question, Allen allegedly entered the house as if he lived there, and proceeded to murder the 77-year-old woman.

The murder was captured on CCTV cameras in the house, but Allen was adamant that the man in the footage was not he, and that as such he was innocent of the charge.

However, he would later confess to having committed the crime when he was detained back in 2015, saying that he was paid $700,000 “by a man” to do the act and retrieve certain documents from the house.