Sentenced back in May to 13 and a half years for raping a 16-year-old girl, Corwyn Arthur has lodged a challenge before the Guyana Court of Appeal, advancing that his sentence is “too severe.”
In the notice of appeal to his conviction and sentence, the thirty-six-year-old Linden resident has expressed the view that in all of the circumstances of his case, the sentence imposed upon him is harsh.
His challenge so far lists no other grounds of appeal and provides no specifics to his lone claim of the sentence being severe.
Arthur called `Cross Eye,’ had been convicted by a jury in a 10 to 2 majority for beating and brutally raping the young lady on a lonely road on the night of December 17th, 2013.
In addition to sexually penetrating the teen without her consent, he was also found guilty by the jury in the same proportion, of assaulting her on the said day, causing her actual bodily harm.
Just under a year ago, Arthur was sentenced to 15 years in jail for the 2018 unlawful killing of Claude `Sonno’ DeJonge, who at the time shared a relationship with a woman Arthur was also once involved with.
Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry who presided over Arthur’s rape trial has ordered that he commence the sentence after completing the unrelated 15-year sentence for the manslaughter charge to which he opted to plead guilty; having been originally indicted for murder.
Justice Sewnarine-Beharry had imposed 15 years for the rape conviction and three years on the conviction for beating the teen; but ordered that the two sentences be served concurrently.
From that 18-year total, the Judge deducted the 18 months Arthur had spent on remand awaiting trial.
His final sentence of 13 years, six months, was ordered to run consecutive to the sentence for manslaughter he is already serving.
