Woman convicted in beauty salon brawl bailed
(CNS): Aisha Jamilah English (32), who was sentenced to 21 months in jail last year for stabbing her co-worker during a fight at a George Town beauty salon, has been released on bail. English has filed an appeal against her conviction based largely on an accusation of incompetent counsel. But the hearing has been delayed, which means English could serve the full sentence before her appeal is decided.
Justice Cheryl Richards allowed the bail request on Wednesday, explaining that the information she provided had given her pause for thought. English had accused her trial defence attorney of failing to provide her with important evidence and sexual harassment.
The judge said that if her claims were true, there was a good chance the conviction could be overturned, so she was erring on the side of justice and granting bail. Strict conditions were attached to the bail, including the surrender of her passport, a stop notice at the ports and a $5,000 surety. She was ordered to wear an electronic tag and abide by a curfew each night.
English was convicted of unlawful wounding and has already served more than six months of the sentence, which she began serving in November. The conviction was in relation to an argument with her work colleague over a small amount of money, and she was found guilty of stabbing her in the face and back. But during the trial, she denied being the aggressor and claimed the victim had attacked her.
Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop, who presided over English’s case, said at the time of sentencing that she had been lenient, given that she could have killed her victim “for nothing”, as she noted the trivial nature of their argument. But none of the wounds were life-threatening or permanent, and despite a very challenging upbringing involving violence and sexual abuse, English had no previous convictions.
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it seems like Cayman don’t want to stop crime.
Deportation order?
Cayman are out of order, looks its like/ supporting crime
With this choice, is the Justice saying (A) that maybe it’s reasonable to stab someone in the neck and face over a small money dispute at a salon, or (B) that our DPP put together the wrong case (again) – that this salon worker was actually being assaulted and in mortal peril, and that is the case that needs to be tried? Further, that the originating assailant is free in our community? [Alleged] sexual [harassment] by counsel should be a separate case file as well as a CILPA disbarment if true.
To think to stab someone in face and neck, one would need to be in mortal peril. How did a small civil money dispute at a salon escalate to that? Just send them both home please and ban them from return travel here. The court should not even be interested in the how, or why, just that it did should satisfy the test to cancel permits and put them on planes, and with a caution warning to that employer.
English sounds like a real piece of work.
“English had accused her trial defence attorney of failing to provide her with important evidence and sexual harassment.”
The above sentence is very unclear .. is she accusing her trial attorney of sexual harassment? .. or failing to provide information of her being sexually harassed?
CNS: The former.
I thought that too, thanks for clearing that up!
Cayman are really in a mess. Anyone on work permit and causes any kind of trouble should be deported and never be permitted to return to Cayman Islands.