Returning fugitive arrested on return to Cayman
(CNS): A local man who was wanted by police in connection with outstanding charges was arrested at the weekend when he arrived back in the Cayman Islands on a British Airways flight on Discovery Day. An RCIPS spokesperson said that at around 6:19pm Monday evening (18 May) the man was arrested at the Owen Roberts International Airport on three outstanding warrants. The man, who has not been identified, left the jurisdiction of the Cayman Islands to live in the United Kingdom while there were outstanding matters before the courts.
Owen Roberts International Airport
“The arrest warrants dated back to 2013 for possession of an imitation firearm, assault causing grievous bodily harm, and common assault when he failed to appear before the courts on separate charges,” the police officer stated.
The man is understood to be Dan Kelly, from West Bay, and he has been remanded in custody after a court appearance on Tuesday. Kelly was also charged with a robbery at the Caribbean Bakery in 2010 when he and a co-defendant were still teenagers. Derrick Simpson, who pleaded guilty to the crime in which two robbers held up the store with a flare gun and fled with around $400, was sentenced in 2013 to three years.
Cayman has a number of fugitives on the run but the authorities do not always pursue those who have absconded while on bail. Richard Hurlstone was charged with and convicted in his absence with kidnapping and related offences in connection with an abduction of a local man in North Side in 2011. He is believed to be in Honduras.
Arthur Screaton, who was charged with theft from a local bar, is living in Colorado. The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions recently confirmed that it will not be pursuing his extradition as the court heard it was not considered to be in the public interest.
I wish non native criminals here would follow his que and do likewise, return to their country of origin.
So how does someone on an Interpol wanted list get through UK immigration and security and onto a commercial flight?
They let him because if he’d been arrested as a wanted fugitive there’d have to be a lengthy and expensive extradition process.
More to the point what forced him to leave the UK and come back?
A desire to stay alive? Maybe someone in the UK made him an offer he couldn’t refuse?
I am sure he ran out of money and the family was not sending anymore. Where else to go but home when surviving becomes tough?
Interpol has worked beautifully here. If he had been stopped in the UK it is the British tax payer who would have had to pay for him and then all the extradition paper work etc. This way he arrives back to his homeland, where the crimes were committed and hopefully gets to live in Northwood at your expense.
I am pretty sure there was enough security on the plane just incase. Do not think for one moment that he was not watched during the entire flight. XXXXX
Derr! Because he was leaving and returning to his country of origin.
Welcome home mate!!
Welcome to the Cayman Islands The #1 beach in the world. Now excuse us as we remove this local criminal. Great advertisement for a visiting tourist. Couldn’t they have dealt with this at immigration?? Come on, this is silly, overdone and not a good look. Someone needs to investigate this and make sure actions like this are avoided. Unless there is an overwhelming fear for public safety, there is really no need for all this. And if he/they that bad, why make them board to begin with??
Welcome home mate.