Stoned and stabbed
Orlando Ellis, the son of murder accused Pedro Ellis, today testified that his father did not have a knife when he ran to him for assistance after being beaten up. However, he said when his father...
View Article‘In my defence’
In an unsworn statement from the dock today, murder accused Anderson Busby maintained that he was defending himself when Devon Taylor lost his life. The 34-year-old Busby of No. 3 Whitehall, St...
View ArticleExpert witness
The pathologist who performed the post-mortem on Antonio Harewood, today revealed that he died from a stab wound to his upper left chest. That was the evidence given by consultant pathologist at the...
View ArticleNo blows shared
One of the police officers who questioned murder accused Baggio Kristidi Decourcey Daniel has denied ever assaulting him during investigations. Sergeant Terry Hurdle today testified in the No.5 Supreme...
View ArticleHot temper costs Ramdin
Charles Niko Elias Ramdin will have to compensate two women – one of them the mother of his child - just over $2000 in the next six weeks or risk being imprisoned for three months. That was the ruling...
View ArticleAccused wife-beater bailed
A man who denied assaulting his wife was granted $5000 bail when he appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates Court today. John Austin Wilfred, a 50-year-old chef and coconut vendor of Headley Land,...
View ArticlePedro the ‘peacemaker’
In what was intended to be an act of peace, Pedro Ellis said he approached Antonio Harewood to find out why he had beaten his son and to resolve the matter. However, he said when Harewood rushed at him...
View ArticleLashley ‘goes bananas’
The search for ‘missing bananas’ led a Christ Church youngster to beat his uncle, who he thought took them up. His actions resulted in Kiron Carson Lashley, 21, of Paradise Village, Christ Church,...
View ArticleGuilty Henry remanded
HMP Dodds will be home for Andre Jamal Henry for the next week after he admitted to stabbing his girlfriend after she attempted to leave him. The 37-year-old of St David’s, Christ Church, was today...
View ArticleCourts closing for tributes on Friday
Members of the public are asked to note that the offices of the High and Magistrates’ Courts will remain open on Friday, October 18, while the courts will close at 12:30 p.m., to facilitate members of...
View ArticleFormer senior officer on ammunition charges
A former senior police officer is expected to appear in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on Friday, October 18, charged with possession of 100 rounds of ammunition without a valid licence to do so....
View ArticleNothing major
The doctor who examined Pedro Ellis said the injuries he sustained to his upper back and left chest could have been caused by a stone or a rock, while the wounds inflicted on his right upper back and...
View Article$65 in weed to cost St Michael man $300
When police officers noticed an unusual bulge in Simeon Ricardo Thorne’s groin area it caught their attention. Their hunch proved to be correct, as Thorne was caught with $65 worth of cannabis inside...
View ArticleAllegedly violent man remanded until Nov 10
Two of his three charges might have stemmed from 2017 but Magistrate Joy-Ann Clarke believed there were “too serious” to grant bail at this time. As a result, 30-year-old Jahbarrie Kimar Lionel Walcott...
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Former crime fighter granted bail in the High Court
Former senior police crime fighter Ashford Athelbert Rat Brown Jones has been granted bail by the High Court on an ammunition charge. This after his attorney Michael Lashley Q.C., was successful in...
View ArticleSt Michael duo charged with murder
Two St Michael men, jointly charged with murder, appeared in a Bridgetown Court this morning but were not required to plead to the indictable offence. They are, 20-year-old Christopher Anderson...
View ArticleFutile pleas
Despite an impassioned submission by defense attorney Michael Lashley, Q.C. this morning for his teenage client to be granted bail, Magistrate Joy-ann Clarke did not grant the 18-year-old his freedom....
View ArticleJones goes home
Retired senior police crime fighter Ashford Athelbert Rat Brown Jones has been set free on $90,000 bail on an ammunition charge. The former crime sleuth first appeared before District ‘A’ Magistrate...
View ArticleDaniel guilty
Baggio Kristidi Decourcey Daniel is guilty of murder but has not received an automatic appointment to the hangman’s noose. That’s because Daniel’s trial was the first capital case since the island’s...
View ArticleKiller cops to manslaughter
Sixty-one-year-old Melanese Eversley fought her attacker who was trying to rob her of her handbag, before he stabbed her between the breasts and killed her. That culprit was Trevor Linus Baptiste alias...
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