Courts
CJ Smellie presides over his last court opening
(CNS): Chief Justice Anthony Smellie presided over a ‘pandemic’ short-form version of the official Opening of the Courts on Wednesday. However, it was revealed during the ceremony that the long serving justice will be retiring later this year and this will be the last time that he will preside over this annual event.
Christmas Eve killer to serve 24-year life term
(CNS): Jashawn Owen Anthony Johnson (21) will serve a minimum of 24 years in jail before he is eligible for parole for the murder of Michael Aaron Bush (22) in the early morning hours of Christmas Eve 2020 at a nightclub complex in The Strand plaza. Johnson, who was just 19 when he stabbed and […]
UK organised crime expert gets DPP job
(CNS): Simon Davis, a UK barrister based in Birmingham, has been appointed as the director of public prosecutions (DPP) on a three year contract from 1 March 2022. Davis is not a QC but officials said he will come to the Cayman Islands “with significant prosecutorial, leadership and management experience”. Davis has a history of […]
East End woman admits child cruelty
(CNS): Lurline Viola Smith Henry (59) will be sentenced later this month after admitting allegations of child cruelty when she appeared in court Friday. The woman is accused of enslaving a 12-year-old Jamaican boy after she convinced his family to let her bring the child to the Cayman Islands, where she could send him to […]
Woman jailed over drivers’ licensing fraud
(CNS): A former civil servant who worked at the Department of Vehicle and Drivers’ Licensing (DVDL) was jailed on Friday for nine months and two weeks, following her conviction earlier this year for corruption offences relating to dozens of licences she gave out to drivers who had not passed a driving test.
Bracker faces list of charges over angry rampage
(CNS): Geoff Scott (24) appeared in court Wednesday facing eight charges in relation to what has been described on social media as an angry rampage at the family home in Cayman Brac at the weekend. Scott was arrested on Sunday after an altercation with a man understood to be his brother. His is charged with […]
GT man gets 10 years for club car park killing
(CNS): Mason Courtney Bryan (29) was handed a ten year prison term on Wednesday for the manslaughter of Recardo Lionel Pars in a nightclub car park at The Strand plaza in August last year. Bryan stabbed Pars during a fight in which prosecutors accept both Pars and his younger brother attacked Bryan, provoking the escalation […]
Connor gets 12 years for terrifying home invasion
(CNS): Shane Connor (44) was sentenced to twelve years in prison on Friday for his part in a crime spree that culminated in a home invasion and robbery at a Prospect house in the early morning hours of 17 June 2017. Justice Dale Palmer took the view that Connor was not the real aggressor in […]
West Bay man admits having illegal gun in car
(CNS): Michael Conrad Ebanks (36), from West Bay, has admitted having a loaded .38 Smith & Wesson revolver in a car he was not insured for and not qualified to drive when he was stopped in George Town by RCIPS officers from the Firearms Response Unit. He has also admitted possessing two and a half ounces […]
Suspect denies robbing victim of over CI$2,900
(CNS): Tyree Jaden Welcome (22), from George Town, will face trial early next year after denying robbing a small business off Eastern Avenue in George Town and stealing CI$2,868 and US$60 in cash. Prosecutors say that Welcome was one of two masked men who entered the premises brandishing a machete and demanded money, frightening the […]
Ex-college worker guilty in child porn case
(CNS): Freddy Manuel Diaz-Christian (33), from West Bay, a former member of staff at the University College of the Cayman Islands and father of two, has been found guilty of possessing images and accessing child pornography online and has been remanded in custody pending sentencing in the New Year.
