Courts
Gun possession lands local man seven years in jail
(CNS): Eddie Marlon Ebanks (42) was sentenced on Wednesday for the possession of an unlicensed firearm and received the mandatory minimum sentence of seven years in connection with a 9mm Luger pistol found in a drawer in his bedroom last summer. Police had executed a search warrant at Ebanks’ workplace and his home in Old […]
Crown wraps up case against gambling shop killers
(CNS): The crown closed its case against Justin Kyle Jackson and Eric Brian Williams Soto for the murder of Harry Elliott last summer after much of the evidence between prosecutors and the defence attorneys was agreed. Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Candia James-Malcolm outlined the basic facts of the case for the jurors, including the […]
Jurors visit scene of gambling shop killing
(CNS): Grand Court spilled out onto the streets of George Town on Monday when the twelve men and women sitting as jurors in the case against Justin Kyle Jackson and Eric Brian Williams Soto for the murder of Harry Elliott last summer visited the scene of the crime. Justice Cheryll Richards, the lawyers, court officials […]
Elliott murder was ‘robbery gone wrong’ says crown
(CNS): Candia James-Malcolm, the deputy director of public prosecutions, told a jury that Harry Elliott (63), a former prison officer who was gunned down at a numbers shop in George Town on 25 April 2022, was murdered during “a robbery gone horribly wrong”. As she opened the crown’s case against Justin Kyle Jackson and Eric […]
Tattoo artists acquitted in sex assault case
(CNS): Yeng Chang Guerra, a tattoo artist accused of sexually assaulting a woman he knew at the Savage Ink Studios on the West Bay Road last year, was found not guilty of all three counts against him Friday. The jury returned the not guilty verdicts after deliberating for about an hour following a four-day trial. […]
Fisherman facing trial over drugs and gun
(CNS): Nulman Ivan Alcantara Santos will stand trial next year, having pleaded not guilty to allegations that he tried to smuggle over 6lbs of cocaine into Cayman and possessed an unlicensed 9mm Glock pistol and five rounds of ammunition. Alcantara was arrested in August after a Customs and Border Control operation aboard a commercial fishing […]
Man denies violent, threatening burglary
(CNS): Michael Anthony Mendez (33) from George Town has pleaded not guilty to two counts of aggravated burglary and one of threatening to kill in connection with a violent break-in last month at the home of a woman he knew. Appearing in Grand Court on Friday morning, Mendez denied breaking into the home in Abbey […]
Man denies trying to use forged cash at Brac shops
(CNS): Tyler Foster Scott from Cayman Brac denied two charges of knowingly trying to use forged CI$100 bills at two shops on the Brac last year. Scott was arrested in September 2022 after he had presented the forged cash at Blackbeard’s liquor store and then at the Market Place grocery store. Scott pleaded not guilty […]
Ex-robber fights removal after lifetime in Cayman
(CNS): A 38-year-old former inmate of HMP Northward who has lived here in the Cayman Islands since he was five years old is fighting the removal of his Caymanian status and possible deportation by the court. Brandon Liberal claims that both the Immigration Appeals Tribunal (IAT) and the Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board (CSPRB) […]
Son gets 9½ years for brutal attack on mother
(CNS): In court on Friday, Jeffrey William Powery (39) received a sentence of nine and a half years for a brutal attack on his mother, Jolene Powery (57 at the time), at their West Bay home in December 2018. Powery had left his mother for dead after beating her into a coma when his undiagnosed […]
Acting judge and lawyer appointed to bench
(CNS): Justice Marlene Carter, who has been acting as a Grand Court judge since 2017, has been officially appointed to the Cayman Islands bench alongside attorney Jalil Asif KC, managing partner at Kobre & Kim (Cayman). The judges were selected after an open recruitment process and recommended as the successful candidates to Governor Jane Owen, […]
