A 15-month transcript delay has cost the Crown its chance to challenge the 26-year minimum term before parole imposed on Andre Thomas for the 2016 killing of two American missionaries in St Mary. The Court of Appeal last month ruled that the Crown’s appeal against the sentence was statute-barred because it was not heard within the 12 months prescribed by law. The court also rejected a subsequent attempt by the prosecution to revive the matter by filing a renewed application for leave to appeal.