Welcome gets ten years for home invasion
(CNS): Roland Welcome (33) was sentenced Tuesday to a decade behind bars, having been found guilty of a violent home-invasion last year. However, his time in HMP Northward is likely to be much longer as he is also awaiting sentence for a more recent conviction for conspiracy to murder Sven Connor. Welcome failed to appear in court and remained in his cell at the prison while the court passed sentence for the aggravated burglary, in which Welcome had broken into the home of a female bartender armed with a machete.
In November 2023, Welcome had been at the Eastern Star Bar in East End. Later that night, he broke into the home of a woman who had been working in the bar and forced himself into her bedroom. He then placed a large rusty machete against her throat and demanded cash from the bar.
The woman told him she did not have the bar money, but because he continued to insist and threaten her, she gave him $300. Before he left, Welcome had threatened the woman not to contact the police, saying he knew who she was and where she lived.
Based on the circumstances of the case and previous sentences given for similar offences, the judge sentenced him to ten years in prison.
However, Welcome was recently convicted of being part of a conspiracy to murder Sven Connor at his home in East End. Although he was not one of the men who opened fire through a window at Connor’s home as he lay in his bed, he was caught on CCTV with the gunmen seconds before and after the shooting on the next door property.
Following his arrest, Welcome admitted he was the man on the footage, but claimed he had been coerced by the others to act as lookout. He was convicted alongside one of the shooters, Antascio Rankine (30), for conspiracy to murder. Both Rankine and Welcome are scheduled to be sentenced in that case next month.
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Deportation order?
Crickets.
What’s the score at now?
I hope that HMP Northwood rolled out a ‘WELCOME BACK’ sign.
It is Northward not “Northwood” you ignoramus.
You sound like you need a snickers.
It’s autocorrect, you bellend. Your name however, it is lacking a comma, so there’s that.
10 years for home invasion… one year for raping a 7 year old girl child…. https://caymannewsservice.com/2025/02/sex-offender-who-molested-child-dodges-serious-jail-time/
Someone put a thumbs down.
The local belief that it is acceptable to sexually assault a minor is absolutely sickening.
How can you tell the nationality of the thumbs-downer so that the rest of us know for future reference?
Were there any “local” users amongst the 26 that gave a thumbs up?
Could it be that thumbs up and thumbs down are somewhat ambiguous responses? Perhaps they chose that a thumbs down was appropriate because they disagree with the scenario presented, and not with the implication of the post?
The internet is hard.
I don’t know what it is about people from East End, but they are just different and strange lol. Having gone to high school with them and graduated less than 10 years ago, everyone I interacted with from there just seems a bit off upstairs, I don’t know if it’s just me that shares that sentiment. Nevertheless, justice has been served.
east end people are really down to earth and funny unlike bodden towners and George towners who are really boring and dry
“Savside” in big 2025 you know… LOL.
Can confirm.
Either religious nuts, or mentalists.
A shadow gene pool!
You and your misguided respondents apparently believe your brief interactions with people gives you the right to paint whole groups of people with the same tint. [additional churlish insults redacted].
Nope. Worked in the Eastern districts community for years. Of course there’s plenty of very normal people, but the extremes, oh dear!
Caymanians slagging off Caymanians….Whoda thunk it? Let an ex-pat try that and we get absolute pelters.
New to CNS?
My brother in Christ, living in the motherland of the UK, the amount of slander I would hear Londoners give to Northerners and vice versa, please save it lol. You’re acting like it doesn’t happen in every country.
You’re welcome. Welcome home.