Handed two life sentences back in May for the killing of two men whom he shot, Orpheus Johnson has lodged an appeal with the Guyana Court of Appeal in which he complains that the sentences are severe.
While he has expressed in his notice of appeal his intention to add more grounds on which his appeal would be based, the Appellant has so far only complained of his sentences being too harsh.
Citing what trial judge Sandil Kissoon had described as the “reckless, callous and merciless” manner in which Johnson shot and killed the two men and then attempted to murder the fiancée and 18-month-old child of one of them, the life sentences were imposed.