AFTER a recent resentencing exercise by the Court of Appeal, a St Catherine man who fired at a cop on a stakeout in Manning’s Hill, St Andrew, in 2015 and was sentenced to two decades behind bars, got a two-month reduction for time he spent in custody before his punishment was handed down.

The man, Rohan Dixon, was convicted in 2021 in the High Court Division of the Gun Court and sentenced to 15 years behind bars for illegal possession of firearm, and 20 years for shooting with intent, with the sentences ordered to run concurrently, making it so that he would spend the longer of the two terms, which is 20 years. He, however, mounted an appeal against his sentences and conviction, arguing, among other things, that the trial judge had erred in not realising that “there was no evidence supportive of a gun being present, particularly since the gun and its spent shells were not recovered and the gun was not described”.

Furthermore, his attorney, in contending that the “evidence did not support the conviction”, argued that there was “no proof” Dixon fired at the cop.