Courts
Bill paves way for immunity deals for crown witnesses
(CNS): The government is expected to pass a piece of legislation next month that will enable the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) to cut deals with important witnesses who are implicated in a crime and provide immunity from prosecution or a commitment to a reduced sentence on a guilty plea. Currently, the […]
Convicted man avoids jail to pay victim’s medical bill
(CNS): Joshua Allan Bush (22) from George Town avoided going to jail last month when his sentence for assault causing actual bodily harm was suspended for two years and a strict curfew was imposed to give him a chance at rehabilitation and allow him to work and pay off the CI$6,000 medical bill of his […]
Suspects deny $40 robbery at GT gas station
(CNS): Three men accused of a robbery conspiracy at the Esso gas station on Dorcy Drive, George Town, in March have denied the charges and will face trial next year. Devon Emmanuel Wright (31), from Cayman Brac, is accused of entering the gas station store and firing a shot before robbing $40 from a customer […]
Football execs found guilty in fraud case
(CNS): Canover Watson has been found guilty of all charges against him in the football fraud case, while his colleague and friend, Bruce Blake, has been found guilty of two of the four charges against him for his part in the scam against CONCACAF. After a twelve-week trial, the jury returned their unanimous verdict on […]
Crown: RCIPS staffer’s ‘road rage’ fuelled data misuse
(CNS): A police support staff member found herself in the dock this week accused of misusing the RCIPS database to access information to track down and confront a driver who made her angry on the way to work after a near miss due to a broken brake light. Veronica Victoria Cole from East End pleaded […]
Jury deliberates complex Watson-Blake case
(CNS): Ten men and women who have spent the last twelve weeks poring over mountains of documents and listening to witness evidence, in person and via video link, arguments from three lawyers and a detailed direction from the judge finally began their deliberations Thursday over the fate of Canover Watson and Bruce Blake. The two […]
Privy Council to sit in Cayman as new courts open
(CNS): The first of several new much-needed courtrooms unofficially opened last week in time to host the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which will be sitting in Grand Cayman to hear three local cases next month, the first time it has ever sat in any British Overseas Territory. It will deal with a dispute […]
Defendant accused of interfering with witnesses
(CNS): A 39-year-old woman from George Town has been charged with two counts of obstructing the course of justice and one count of conspiracy to obstruct the course of justice. Police said that on Friday, 14 October, she was arrested in relation to incidents where she allegedly attempted to dissuade a witness from giving evidence […]
Pageant queen accused of creating ‘explosive’ scene
(CNS): One of two men allegedly assaulted by pageant queen Tiffany Conolly (24) described a “chaotic and explosive situation” late on a Sunday night one year ago when the young woman came to his house looking for his son. The victim, who was the first witness in the trial of this year’s Miss Cayman Islands […]
Attorneys battle over truth in Watson-Blake case
(CNS): Canover Watson and Bruce Blake are both liars, prosecuting counsel Eloise Marshall KC told a jury this week as she summed up the crown’s case against the two men, who are accused of scamming $1.5 million from the regional football association, CONCACAF, and of laundering the cash almost a decade ago. But Dapinder Singh […]
Blake denies laundering Watson’s ‘stolen’ cash
(CNS): Bruce Blake, a former football executive with both CIFA and CONCACAF, has denied money laundering and false accounting in relation to a scheme where, prosecutors say, he helped his colleague Canover Watson hide more than $1.5 million, the proceeds of scam invoices for football kit. Blake claimed the work he did for Canover Watson […]
