Latest update April 28th, 2026 12:30 AM
Two more death row inmates’ sentences commuted
Death row inmate Derrick Callender’s sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, while Safraz Rahim’s death sentence was quashed and replaced with a 10-year prison term.
The judgments were handed down by Chief Justice Ian Chang. Callender was taken off the Death Row on Friday while Rahim was taken off the previous day.
They were both represented by Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos.
Derrick Callender was charged with Gary Moses but was tried separately on indictments which accused them of killing 53-year-old Leila Barrow, at her David Street, Kitty, home between July 23 and July 24, 1993.
The Appeal Court set aside the death sentence imposed on Moses and ordered him to stand a retrial.
Derrick Callender was convicted and remained incarcerated for 20 years. He spent 17 of those on Death Row.
Safraz Rahim was charged with murder on July 1, 2003 for killing a man on the West Bank of Demerara. Rahim had chopped a man to death after responding to a call for help from his sister-in-law. He was convicted and sentenced to death on June 5, 2005.
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