Ex-Miss Cayman dodges jail in assault case
(CNS): Tiffany LeAnn Conolly (25) from West Bay was handed a six-month jail sentence on Tuesday in relation to an assault at her ex-lover’s family home in West Bay more than two years ago. However, that jail time has been suspended for two years. The former pageant queen lost her Miss Cayman Islands title following a conviction for assaulting her ex-boyfriend, his father and a police officer.
Conolly was found guilty of common assault, damage to property, assaulting police and disorderly conduct in Summary Court back in February. But the sentencing hearing has been repeatedly delayed as a result of issues relating to mental health reports. However, on Tuesday morning Magistrate Philippa McFarlane handed down the suspended sentence.
Conolly was also ordered to pay $2,260 as compensation for damaging the cars of her ex-lover and his father as well as a pair of reading glasses. If she fails to pay the fine within one year, she will go to jail for three months, the court has ordered. She has also been directed to attend anger management classes, to seek mental health treatment and undergo routine drug tests.
During the trial last year, Conolly denied assaulting the two men and implied that her ex and his father had threatened her. She argued she was defending herself, a claim the magistrate did not believe. Conolly did, however, blame the incident on an episode of mental illness, which was supported by medical reports.
McFarlane also noted the failure of the courts to record previous convictions for Conolly for similar offences. It was because there was no criminal record that Connolly was allowed to continue to compete in the 2022 Miss Cayman pageant, which she went on to win, which placed the committee and the tourism ministry in an awkward situation that has led to government pulling out of the beauty contest business.
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She doesn’t deserve to goto jail.
Counselling is most appropriate.
Hopefully this time around she is receptive to the mental health treatment she requires. The court stated she has previously denied court orders of doing just that and missed appointments set for her. It is interesting that she is being routinely drug tested; is it a measure of ensuring she is taking the medication she is prescribed by her psychiatrist? Hopefully so. I think her mental illness is far greater than she is/this trial has let on, which is why she is being given yet another chance. Sending her to the prison here would probably do far more harm than good when really what she needs is to be in a mental facility receiving rehabilitative treatment; which as we all know Cayman lacks..
I suppose we have to be grateful she had no conviction recorded. Thats par for the course in Cayman Courts. Weak justice or no justice.
Like a furious jungle cat! Attacked BF, BF’s dad, car and police officer wow Tiffany intensity could fit well as a UFC cage fighter!
I was once charged with ‘insulting the modesty of a woman’ for saying she was incompetent, that is how stupid the law is!
Just because you called her incompetent doesn’t necessarily mean you were NOT insulting her modesty…
We need context. Incompetent at what?
As a lawyer
And you were charged for that? You lie.
Please educate us when calling a woman incompetent would be insulting the modesty of a woman and also why it would be okay to say the same thing to a man?
Im assuming he cat called her on the street and then called her incompetent when she told him to f off.
Nope
Such ignorance, you have also assumed it was a ‘he’.
Psycho. Lots of those around here
So have the pageant organisers ever stated what has happened with the prizes award at the contest? I sincerely hope that she has not benefitted financially and the scholarship funds will be used by the revised winner.
She kept the $70K
Wow. Do people ever get anything other than a slap on the wrist here!
Depends on who you are.
5.57pm Yet she can suddenly only pay for all the damage at the rate of 200.00 per month
3, yes THREE counts of assault (police officer, guys dad and guy) and still suspended 😂
Anyone know this birds background? What kind of Caymanian is she? New neighbour Caymanian or wah?
It’s hard to understand how a conviction for assaulting a police officer can not result in a custodial sentence.
Hopefully she gets her life back on track.
So you just keep committing crimes like the previous ones never happened? The prior decisions not to record a conviction should always have a caveat that future convictions rescind the waiver and you bare the full force and effect of the Law.
Some may remember the Englishman, still here, who was caught 7 figures deep in the developers’ cash register, and he was incredibly charged with “Deception”.
This slap on the wrist meant that he has continued to “deceive” many business partners, and always settles with NDAs.
Slaps on the wrist are no deterrent to criminal minds.
Punishment that hurts freedom, the pocket, or reputation is a deterrent….slaps on the wrist don’t achieve anything.
A** whoopings don’t fall out of the sky…
Slap on the wrist ..won’t change her ways, in a culture of high heels, long nails and no brains.
The ultimate in vanity
Exploiting their supremacy
I can’t believe the things you say
I can’t believe, I can’t believe the price
We pay
Justice is lost, justice is raped, justice is gone
Pulling your strings, justice is done
Seeking no truth, winning is all
Find it so grim, so true, so real
cayman justice= no justice
nice precedent…will look forward to meeting a few cops this weekend and settling a few scores.
Basically we can all agree now she wasn’t fit to be ambassador material. Will there be a disgorgement of benefits paid from us, back to our account?
Image if this was a young man with a history of violence do you think he would have received a suspended sentence?
Disgraceful. Young men in Cayman take note of her and stay away.
Agreed, no one truly wants equality in all aspect. I’d imagine if she was an Expat then she’d spend prison time and get deported right?
Don’t worry she’ll be back in the dock or in the asylum in EE before her two years are up.
She obviously has serious issues but acknowledgement is the first to dealing with them. Repeated lunacy is being rewarded with impunity. Who would have been accountable if she had critically injured or even killed someone?
Women and men should be held to the same standard. Im a woman and even I think it’s unfair. The law should apply equally.
yeah all the me-too brigade have gone silent….zzzzz