THE Court of Appeal will, on Wednesday, deliver its ruling in the case brought by Rajesh Guyadeen, who is currently serving 70 years for a 2003 murder.

In 2018, Guyadeen called “Brucksman” was sentenced by Justice Navindra Singh in the Georgetown High Court, after a 12-member jury found him guilty of the capital offence of murder.

Guyadeen had denied the May 4, 2003 murder of 37-year-old farmer, Nandram Manouar, called “Nanu” of Lancaster, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara.

The judge sentenced the accused to 60 years in jail but added 10 more for premeditation.

In his appeal documents, the convict claimed that the trial judge erred in law and that the sentencing was excessive and too severe.

As such, he is asking the court to reserve and/or set aside his conviction and sentence.

According to reports, on May 3, 2003, Manouar walked home from a wedding house at Unity, East Coast Demerara, in the company of four men.

The group was walking because Manouar’s bicycle wheel had a puncture. As he was heading into his yard around midnight, he shouted out to his friends that “Brucksman” just stab me,” before he collapsed.

He was later pronounced dead on arrival at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

A post-mortem report gave the cause of death as perforation of the aorta and left kidney due to a stab wound.

The police subsequently went to the house where the accused was staying. However, he had already fled to Suriname. He returned to Guyana in 2014 and was later arrested.