George Senior found guilty of murdering Hernandez
(CNS): After four days deliberating the crown’s case against George Orlando Senior (36) for the murder of Divonte Hernandez (25) outside a George Town liquor store in September 2023, a jury of seven women and five men delivered a unanimous guilty verdict on Monday. However, the jury acquitted Bianca Vega (34), who was charged with accessory after the fact. Vega had been accused of hiding Senior, who went on the run after the daylight murder.
On the morning of 23 September, Hernandez was gunned down in a brazen assassination as he sat at a picnic table outside Liquor 4 Less in George Town in front of his young child and a number of others.
The case against Senior was based on a combination of forensic evidence, including DNA, and circumstantial evidence, though the police never found the murder weapon. At least two other men were also said to have been involved by taking Senior to the scene and helping him escape.
Those men were arrested during the course of the investigation, but both were released on bail and have since left the country.
Senior denied being the killer, and although he had given a no-comment interview at the time of his arrest, it was not until the trial that he admitted to being at the scene. He claimed he was the driver and had been coerced into helping the killers, whom he knew only as “Skippa” and “Cheese”.
He claimed that he had bought drugs from them earlier that day, and they had told him they needed his help to drive them to collect outstanding drug debts. He said both men were armed and had threatened him and his family.
Vega, the mother of Senior’s child, had denied harbouring him as she genuinely did not believe he had committed murder. After Vega was acquitted, she was released by the courts, but Senior, who is facing a life sentence of some 30 years in jail, was remanded in custody until June when that sentencing hearing is scheduled to take place.
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Sounds like a set up to me…
The female got off because she is more than likely a single mother of 2 to 3 kids. She would not be able to do jail time. She only found time to be with and hide a criminal.
How did the other 2 get away. Lock them all up. We need to start shipping this people out to CECOT and say good bye for good
Hey Skippa, hold my Cheese!
I really hope the RCIPS traffic department stop plenty of those Honda Fit rental cars, so ubiquitous on these roads now. The second and third generation Fits are about 50% dodgy rentals, and driven like idiots. I reckon plenty of these vehicles have drivers with no licenses, with the vehicle rented in someone else’s name. This is the bare minimum.
I’m not holding my breath, though.
Why you called Skippa?
Cos I skippa da bail!
Why you called Cheese?
Cos I tend to melt away!
Bianca should get some time in jail too she played a big part
Why would he try to blame Skippa and Cheese, everybody knows BuJu is the driver in all these crimes.
‘He claimed that he had bought drugs from them earlier that day, and they had told him they needed his help to drive them to collect outstanding drug debts’ ya he sounds like a saint! You hang around filth your gona get dirty
Buju and Blacks!
“Crime remains stable across deez tree islands”
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The two others “were released on bail and have since left the country.” How convenient.
I know him, he isn’t a killer, what he’s saying is prob true.
But the courts will disagree.
Hence why the two guys left the island.
The *courts* don’t disagree — the *evidence* disagrees.
The evidence being that he was in the car used in the shooting. Not saying he didnt do it – but you cannot say the evidence contradicts his version. Its the jury rather than the court or the evidence that decided whether he was the shooter or the driver. Same jury that decided that his missus gets off scot free despite renting the vehicle and hiding him for weeks.
It’s still astonishing that they released the other 2 on bail and didn’t try to confine them to the country until the case proceeded
Whatever, 3 more imported scones off the streets.
they will be back
Already are.
The levels of maladministration are criminal.
sounds like they snitched and caught a deal
The judicial system doing something proper for once
By releasing 2 others on bail only for them to leave the country? Great job I must say… Zzzzz
Oh shoot-so I am guessing they left on a boat or by plane ? I assume they would have held on to their passports so they wouldn’t fly away to return at a later date.
They will be back with fresh, new documents.
…and yet no deportation order?
if they deport him he’ll be right back here