Courts
Death five years after stabbing found unlawful
(CNS): A coroner’s inquest has found that the death of Wesley Clarke at the Cayman Islands hospital in 2017, five years after he was violently attacked, was unlawful. Clarke was stabbed in the neck at a party in June 2012 and shortly afterwards slipped into a coma, from which he never awoke. The jury found […]
Drug smuggling witness attacked in jail
(CNS): Andrew Beckford (42) was attacked in prison on Monday by the man he had given evidence against in a drug and guns smuggling case. However, at his sentencing hearing, Justice Cheryll Richards reduced the ten-year mandatory sentence Beckford was facing to just 30 months due to exceptional circumstances, which means he will soon be […]
Serial sex offender back in jail for fourth time
(CNS): Ronnie Rodney Ebanks (53) from West Bay has been jailed for two years, having admitted to exposing himself and masturbating in public as he watched young children playing on Seven Mile Beach in January. Ebanks pleaded guilty in April to publicly committing an indecent act and criminal trespass. But at the time he was […]
Duo face lengthy jail time over booze shop heist
(CNS): Two of the three culprits in a violent robbery at the Tortuga liquor store in Governor’s Square in February 2020 have been handed lengthy jail terms. Richard Edward Nash (27) was one of two masked men who, armed with a long knife, went into the store, threatened staff and engaged in “gratuitous violence”, according […]
Local man gets 14 years for smuggling drugs & guns
(CNS): Dencle Vic Barnes (52) from George Town has been sentenced to 14 years in prison following his conviction earlier this year for smuggling two handguns and 70lbs of ganja. Barnes initially tried, and failed, to get the case thrown out on the grounds that his human rights had been violated. The charges against Barnes […]
Second witness says Bush admitted killing son
(CNS): A West Bay woman told the court on Thursday that Roger Deward Bush confessed to her that he had killed his son hours after Shaquille Bush (24) was found dead in his yard on Miss Daisy Lane, having been shot multiple times. Candace Orrett Ebanks said she had tried to avoid hearing what had […]
Key murder witness lost trust over cop’s ‘threat’
(CNS): A key witness in the crown’s case against Roger Deward Bush (47) for the murder of his son, Shaquille Bush (24), at their family yard in 2019 told the court how shortly after the killing, she had been ready to tell the police everything she knew until an RCIPS auxiliary officer visited her in […]
Crown: Father gunned down son in ‘hail of bullets’
(CNS): Roger Deward Bush gunned down his 24-year-old son, Shaquille Demario Bush, at their family home in West Bay in a “hail of bullets”, prosecutor Andrew Radcliffe QC told the court Friday. Bush, who is now 47, has pleaded not guilty to murder. The crown’s case against him is that in November 2019, he chased […]
Charges laid in two separate illegal gun cases
(CNS): A 30-year-old George Town man employed by the police in a support role has been charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm. He was arrested last week following a search at his house when a loaded gun was found. In a separate case, a 31-year-old man from West Bay has been charged with possession […]
Burglar admits spree of George Town break-ins
(CNS): Romario Desmond Brown appeared in court Friday and admitted breaking into three different homes in George Town and stealing a variety of loot and cash over a two-day period earlier this year. Brown, who is already in custody, is expected to be sentenced in July after social inquiry reports were ordered. On 31 January […]
George Town man charged over gun found in raid
(CNS) A 54-year-old man from George Town has now been charged with the possession of an unlicensed firearm after his arrest on Tuesday following a raid at a house on Rock Hole Road. Police had searched the house under the Misuse of Drugs Act and found a loaded revolver containing six rounds of ammunition. Two […]
