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NEARLY five decades after he was convicted and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of four-year-old Roslyn Lucas, Peter Matthews wants a chance to go home.

Matthews has launched a fresh appeal, arguing that his punishment was unlawful because he was only 17 at the time of the 1978 crime.

His latest application, filed by attorneys Joseph Sookoo and Abigail Roach, follows a May 26 resentencing hearing by Justice Maria Busby Earle-Caddle, who reduced his sentence to 50 years’ imprisonment.