The United Kingdom-based Privy Council has denied an application for permission to appeal by 47-year-old Jamaican businessman Steven Causwell who was convicted for the murder of his ex-girlfriend at her home located at Oakland Apartments.
Causwell was found guilty by a jury in 2016 for killing 28-year-old Nadia Mitchell in 2008.
He was sentenced in October 2016 to life imprisonment and ordered to serve 20 years before he is eligible for parole.
In a message posted on its website, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council outlined that "There is no appeal as of right based on the Constitution and that permission to appeal should be refused."
It added that "There is no risk that a serious miscarriage of justice may have occurred."
Mitchell's body was found in the yard of the gated apartment complex in July 2008 with 27 injuries, 19 of which were inflicted before she died.
At the trial, Director of Public Prosecutors Paula Llewellyn painted Causwell as a scorned, obsessive, and controlling lover and described his relationship with Mitchell as a fatal attraction.
At the time of her death, Mitchell was in another relationship after ending her romance with Causwell.
Causwell had admitted visiting the deceased at her apartment on the night of the incident.
He said he and the deceased had a fight and that she stormed out of the apartment.
Causwell said he later found her lying motionless in the yard and took her to hospital.
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