Setting the record straight

Feb 27, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

I wish to refer to Freddie Kissoon (no relation) column in Kaieteur News of 23/02/ touching and concerning the rape case of the State v Trotman.
I defended the accused at the Court of Appeal. The matter was fully submitted and argued before the Court two years ago on the grounds of being unreasonable and oppressive having regard to the evidence and severity of sentence of 49 years.
The Court of Appeal duly dismissed the appeal on both of the aforesaid grounds. I thereafter proposed to the accused that I appeal to the CCJ when the accused informed me in tears, “Mr Kissoon you have done enough for me” and declined my offer.
Mr. Freddie Kissoon you did not seek permission from either the client or his Attorney nor did you research this topic before publication.
It is now known in the whole Caribbean that such sentences in rape cases are oppressive, unduly severe since the case of Pompey v State and contrary to the guidelines of the CCJ.
I hope I have now set the record straight.

Yours respectfully,
Madan Kissoon
Attorney-at-law

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