Woman convicted of murder loses bid to review sentence

A woman who has spent 30 years in prison for help­ing to kill two men in sep­a­rate in­ci­dents in 1993 has failed in her bid to have a judge re­view the life sen­tence she re­ceived for the death of one vic­tim.

Natasha De Leon’s ap­peal to the Privy Coun­cil was de­nied by three British Law Lords, who said her ap­peal “does not raise an ar­guable point of law of gen­er­al pub­lic im­por­tance, nor is there a risk that a se­ri­ous mis­car­riage of jus­tice has oc­curred.”

De Leon sought the re­view while be­ing re-sen­tenced for the mur­der of Chan­dranath Ma­haraj in 2024. She and her com­mon-law hus­band, Dar­rin Thomas, were con­vict­ed in 1995.