–moves to redress it

SELWIN Dawson, called ‘Crack-Skull’, who confessed to the fatal shooting of Purcell Moore Jr. during a robbery at Craig Old Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD) in 2017, has moved to the Court of Appeal to challenge his life sentence.
Dawson is contending that the sentence is manifestly excessive and severe in all the circumstances of the cases.
He and his accomplice, Kevin Persaud, were indicted for murder, but they both opted to plead guilty to the lesser count of manslaughter. The duo admitted that on December 20, 2017, they unlawfully killed 40-year-old Moore during the course of a robbery.
In June, Justice Sandil Kissoon, who sits at the Demerara High Court, sentenced them both to life imprisonment, with the possibility of parole after serving 15 years. However, Persaud has not filed an appeal against his sentence.
According to reports, Moore, the father of two, who was robbed of his gold chain and other jewellery, sustained two gunshot wounds to the head during the attack, which occurred one street away from his mother’s home at Craig.
Reports are that the man had returned from abroad several weeks prior, and might have been monitored by his attackers.