Sentenced to 20 years behind bars for the strangling death of her eight-year-old son Emmanuel, Sonia King has appealed her sentence, arguing that it was too severe given the circumstances of her case.
She is complaining in her notice of appeal filed before the Guyana Court of Appeal, also, that Justice Navindra Singh who presided over her matter and imposed the sentence, did not consider mitigating circumstances.
She argues through her attorney Mark Conway that the judge failed, and or neglected to consider mitigating circumstances which she says arose upon the facts of her case, regarding her mental state at the time she committed the offence.