Appeals against convictions for murder were allowed where the court could not be satisfied that the trial judge had given proper directions on identification evidence in summing-up and the remaining evidence against the appellants was not compelling enough to make convictions inevitable. The appellants were brothers, Bertrand Roberts and Roland Roberts, who were convicted of murder and sentenced to death at the Assizes Court in Port of Spain as long ago as 15 December 1988. They appealed against conviction but their applications for leave to appeal were not heard until 9 June 1998. On that date the Court of Appeal refused leave and affirmed the convictions. In the meantime on 31 December 1993 the Minister of National Security had commuted their sentences to sentences of life imprisonment as a result of the decision of the Board in Pratt v Attorney General for Jamaica [1994] 2 AC 1. The Court of Appeal affirmed those life sentences.