FORMER MATTHEWS Lane strong man 49-year-old Donald 'Zekes' Phipps, who was sentenced last month to life imprisonment for double murder, has filed an appeal seeking to have his convictions overturned.
Phipps is contending that his trial was unfair and amounted to an abuse of the process of the court.
He claims that there were actions in the case which amounted to a deliberate violation of his rights.
A jury convicted him in April of the murder of Rodney Leroy Farquharson and Dayton Williams, of Bayshore Park, east Kingston.
The burnt bodies with gunshot wounds were found in a open lot on Rose Lane, downtown Kingston, on April 15 last year.
Mr. Justice Horace Marsh sentenced Phipps and ordered that he should serve 30 years before he was eligible for parole.
Phipps, in the grounds of appeal filed this week, is contending that the judge admitted hearsay evidence at his trial.
He claims further that the judge failed to analyse the evidence of the witnesses who gave testimony in relation to voice identification and also failed to point out the weaknesses in their evidence.
