Courts
Suspect burglar arrested on return to crime scene
(CNS): A 30-year-old George Town man appeared in court Friday afternoon charged with breaking into two different commercial premises in George Town on Tuesday, 26 July. The suspect was arrested when he returned to the scene of one of the burglaries and came face to face with the police. Officers had first been called to […]
Premier urges attorneys to support legal aid
(CNS): The well-established Judicial Legal Aid Department and the launch of a fully staffed Legal Aid Clinic have gone a long way to reinforcing access to justice in the Cayman Islands, Premier Wayne Panton said Thursday in his address at the Conference of CARICOM Chief Justices and Heads of Judiciaries, as he urged more attorneys […]
Overstayer uses murdered man’s passport
(CNS): Dennis Augustus Ramsay, who had attempted to leave the country on a dead man’s passport, pleaded guilty to two immigration offences on Monday and was remanded in custody. Ramsay, a Jamaican national, was arrested in May by Customs and Border Control officers after a Cayman Airways agent became suspicious of the passport he was […]
Regional conference highlights IT in judicial admin
(CNS): The Conference of CARICOM Chief Justices and Heads of Judiciaries will be meeting on Grand Cayman on Thursday and Friday this week (28-29 July). This is the second time the conference has been held in the Cayman Islands, which hosted it previously in 2007 when the Conference of Caribbean Judicial Officers (CAJO) was established. […]
Street drug dealer stays in jail after failed appeal
(CNS): Wayne Carlos Myles (41), who is serving a 13-year jail term for selling drugs and a consecutive two-year term for pimping, has failed to get his drug convictions and sentence quashed by the Court of Appeals. Myles was convicted in November 2017 for possession with intent to supply over six and a half grams […]
Suspect tops Jamaica’s most wanted list
(CNS): The man who was rounded up by the RCIPS last Friday is considered St Catherine’s most wanted criminal, according to the Jamaican police. Rudolph Almando Shaw (30), a.k.a. “Boxer” or “Boxa”, was arrested in Grand Cayman after he fled Jamaica aboard a canoe. He was tracked down in George Town with the help of […]
Gunman was returning fire, says lawyer
(CNS): Mikkyle Brandon Leslie (36) could be facing more than a decade behind bars over a loaded gun that he fired outside a bar in George Town in February 2020. But at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, his defence attorney told the court that Leslie had come under fire before he used the gun, which […]
Violent prisoner loses bid to take half of victim’s home
(CNS): George Washington Vaughan (51), who is serving a 14-year sentence in HMP Northward for the attempted murder of his ex-wife, has failed in a legal bid to take half of the house they once shared as the court found in the victim’s favour. He was denied a share of the property based on “obvious […]
Porn image of infant increases jail time
(CNS): The possession of a Category A image involving an infant girl and an adult man in what was clearly a live abuse situation increased the jail time that Freddy Manuel Diaz-Christian will serve for accessing and possession of child pornography. Justice Marva McDonald-Bishop jailed the former UCCI employee for five years following his conviction […]
Murder suspect turns down chance to tell his side
(CNS): After two weeks of hearing the crown’s evidence against him for the murder of his 24-year-old son, Shaquille Demario Bush, in November 2019, Roger Deward Bush (47) declined to give evidence on his own behalf on Monday, leaving his lawyer to tell his side of the story. Bush was warned by Justice Marlene Carter, […]
Third man in drug smuggling gang admits guilt
(CNS): In court last week, Andre Carroll Woodman admitted his part in a smuggling operation last year that was intercepted by the police. His co-defendants, Jermaine Jevornie Myles and Alexander Adrian Ebanks, had previously pleaded guilty to importing 4.65 kilos of cocaine. Woodman has now also admitted to this plus an additional charge of handling […]
