Courts
Arsonist’s appeal over police office fire fails
(CNS): The man who set fire to the police records office and business centre at the Windjammer Plaza on Walkers Road and torched an abandoned car has failed in his attempt to overturn his 2022 conviction. An appeal by Rupert Junior Spence (36), who is serving a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence, was refused, according to newly […]
Local man admits having unlawful loaded gun
(CNS): Jerry Daniel Archer (41) from Bodden Town has admitted having a loaded semi-automatic pistol without a licence and is now facing a mandatory minimum seven-year sentence. Archer, who is Caymanian, was charged following a raid at his home by police on Saturday, 29 April, under a search warrant. He pleaded guilty Friday during his second […]
CICA: Police ‘entitled to protection’ from gunmen
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal found that a judge who had added four years to a ten-year sentence handed to one of two robbers who shot at police officers as they tried to escape was entitled to do so because it was a separate crime. The higher court refused an appeal last week […]
EMT found guilty of indecently assaulting child
(CNS): An EMT with the Health Services Authority, Selvin Senon Caballero (41) has been convicted of sexual assault on a child. Following a judge alone trial last month, acting Grand Court judge, Justice Michael Wood delivered his guilty verdicts, Thursday. He said he found both Caballero and his wife who gave evidence on his behalf […]
Gun in the oven gets couple jailed for 10 years
(CNS): Kevan Maxhoward Smith (29) and Sharis Alexandra Ford (28) were both handed mandatory ten-year prison terms Friday, following the couple’s conviction last year for the possession of a loaded, unlicensed 9mm pistol. The gun was found in the under-oven drawer of the stove at the George Town apartment where they were living. Police had […]
Hill appeals 2020 conviction over podcast
(CNS): Sandra Hill, the host of Cayman Marl Road, is defending herself in the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal against a conviction in 2020 for abusing and harassing on an ICT network in connection with a podcast in which she accused local businessman Matthew Leslie of being a sexual predator. This was the first time […]
Man charged over shot fired in George Town
(CNS): A 26-year-old man from George Town has been charged with possession of an imitation firearm with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress. He is accused of pulling a handgun and firing a single shot at another man, whom he knew, on the night of 9 March at the junction of Eastern Avenue and […]
Sentencing delayed for ex-pageant queen
(CNS): Tiffany Conolly (25), who won the Miss Cayman Islands Universe pageant crown in August 2022 but lost it earlier this year when she was convicted of assault and other charges, will have to wait another seven weeks to learn her fate. Conolly appeared in court for sentencing on Thursday, but the case was adjourned […]
Watson and Blake jailed in CIFA fraud case
(CNS): Former CIFA and CONCACAF executives Canover Watson and Bruce Blake were both sent to jail by Chief Justice Margaret Ramsay-Hale on Wednesday, following their conviction in October last year in relation to a football fraud. While Watson was handed an eight-year term, reflecting his leading role in the fraud and money laundering, Bruce Blake […]
Mac pleads not guilty to indecent assault charges
(CNS): Veteran politician and former parliamentary speaker McKeeva Bush MP (WBW) denied two counts of indecent assault charges against two women at a cocktail reception last year. Bush appeared in the dock in Grand Court Friday morning and pleaded not guilty to the charges. The jury trial, which is expected to last around one week, […]
Traffickers used sneakers to smuggle 3kg of cocaine
(CNS): Two women and one man from Suriname began serving lengthy prison terms Wednesday following their conviction for importing around 3kgs of cocaine hidden in the soles of ten pairs of sneakers in suitcases they brought to Cayman in October. The trio travelled from Suriname through Trinidad and Jamaica, pretending not to know each other. […]
