Courts
Hung jury in murder trial, Dixon to be retried
(CNS): After more than two days of deliberation, the seven women and five men of the jury in the trial of Javon James Dixon (29) for the murder of Jovin Omar Fuentes (32) confirmed Tuesday that they were unable to reach a verdict. Justice Cheryll Richards dismissed the jurors after they sent a final note […]
Bush due in court facing indecent assault charges
(CNS) UPDATED: The former speaker of the Cayman Islands parliament and West Bay MP, McKeeva Bush (WBW), has been charged with two counts of indecent assault and alternatively common assault in relation to an incident occurring at a Caribbean Tourism Organization cocktail event at the Ritz-Carlton resort last September. Police said he was due to […]
Men admit their part in $500k turtle farm fraud
(CNS): Two men have pleaded guilty to fraud and two others have been released by the court in a long-running corruption case relating to the Cayman Turtle Centre (CTC). Prosecutors said Monday that they had accepted pleas entered by Mark Manderson (41) and Jeremy Williams (39) in relation to a conspiracy in which Manderson is […]
Driver admits killing motorcyclist in West Bay crash
(CNS): Jordon Telford (39) from West Bay pleaded guilty on Friday to causing the death of Shemiah Grant in a collision in the district almost two years ago. The case has dragged through the courts as a result of the time it takes for accident reconstruction reports to be finalised. However, Telford finally answered the […]
Suspected Russian gun smuggler working in Cayman
(CNS): Anton Parygin, a Russian national with both Israeli and Canadian citizenship who is accused of gun smuggling, is working in the Cayman Islands, according to information revealed in court on Friday. Parygin appeared in the dock in Grand Court in relation to three firearms and ammunition found in his luggage at Owen Roberts Airport […]
UK court rules against closed-door legal hearing
(CNS): Two Caymanian prisoners serving life sentences for murder have won an important legal victory in a fight to serve their sentences at HMP Northward after being transferred without notice to high-security prisons in the UK. The Judicial Committee of the UK’s Privy Council (JCPC), after a historic sitting in the Cayman Islands, has ruled that […]
Lawyer accuses family of collusion in murder case
(CNS): The uncles and aunts of Jovin Omar Fuentes (32), who was shot and killed last summer in front of them, were not telling the truth when they gave evidence in the trial of Javon James Dixon (29) and colluded against him even though he was not the gunman, defence lawyer Amelia Fosuhene claimed as […]
Court paves the way for costs claim in Doctors Express case
(CNS): Doctors Express is on its way to a significant costs claim as the court has recently ruled that the government’s defence of the clinic’s legal challenge to an unlawful raid of their premises in 2019 was so “hopeless” they should have conceded the case. Justice Robin McMillan said that during the proceedings, instead of […]
Beach blockers in court as PLC clamps down
(CNS): The Public Lands Commission has identified 39 landowners who are blocking access to the beach or shoreline around Cayman and has begun the process of prosecuting those who are not compliant with enforcement notices. In the first cases since the commission was created, several people appeared in court Tuesday in relation to seven locations […]
Cop denies cruelty charge over death of K9 Baron
(CNS): Police Officer Timothy Alexander Munroe appeared in Summary Court on Tuesday, facing a single charge of cruelty to an animal in relation to the death of the police dog, Baron, last year. Munroe, who pleaded not guilty, graduated from police training in March 2022, one of two recruits to be awarded ‘Most Outstanding Student’. […]
Dixon’s story ‘a complete concoction’, says crown
(CNS): Javon James Dixon (29), who is on trial for the murder of his friend, Jovin Omar Fuentes (32), last summer lied to the police about many things, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Candia James-Malcolm said Tuesday. As she summed up the crown’s case against him, she said that his story was “a complete concoction” […]
