Corentyne butcher Asif Hamid, who was sentenced to 15 years last month after admitting to the 2015 killing of a man he had strangled and buried in a shallow grave, is appealing the sentence which he says is too severe.
In his notice of appeal lodged with the Guyana Court of Appeal, the 27-year-old, formerly of Lot 34 Kingston, Corriverton, Berbice said that the sentence imposed by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall is very harsh.
He complains, too, of having not been given an opportunity by the judge to address the court.