The Court of Appeal yesterday granted an extension to allow attorney Nigel Hughes to file an appeal on behalf of Teneisha Evans, the girlfriend of Colwyn Harding, the man who accused a policeman of raping him with a baton during his arrest last year.
Evans remains in the New Amsterdam Women’s prison serving a two-year sentence imposed on December 3rd, after she pleaded guilty to stealing and selling property from an aunt in order to raise bail for Harding.
Hughes told the court that he filed on the grounds that the sentence was excessive,