Courts
Ex-cop serves full sentence on remand in abuse case
(CNS): A former police officer who has been on remand at HMP Northward for over a year in connection with a case of domestic abuse and perverting the course of justice will be released from jail immediately after he received a twelve month sentence on Wednesday. Rayal Benson Forbes, who worked for the RCIPS until […]
CI footballer accused of violent attack on 3 women
(CNS): Just before his trial opened in Grand Court on Thursday, Derrin Kennedy Ebanks (31), a former member of the Cayman Islands national football squad, pleaded not guilty to 13 charges relating to an alleged booze-fuelled, violent rampage against three women last September. Outlining the case against Ebanks, crown prosecutor Scott Wainwright told the jury […]
Fear drove bar owner to keep illegal gun
(CNS): Kirk Munroe, the manager of the George Town bar, Ultra Lounge, appeared in court Friday charged with the possession of a loaded illegal handgun and has been remanded in custody. Munroe has claimed that he found the gun outside his bar just a few days before his arrest and was worried the real owner […]
Gunman jailed for 9 years after dishonest claims
(CNS): A man who denied having a gun after he was charged following a shooting at Vic’s Bar on 6 December last year, only to be caught red-handed with the weapon in April while on bail for that case, has been jailed for nine years. Marlon Sharpe (42) was charged last December with possession of […]
Amputee jailed for 3 years for stabbing step-father
(CNS): Renaldo Keanua Taylor (20) has been jailed for three years for stabbing his step-father in an altercation at their North Side home in 2019 when he was just 18-years-old, in what the judge said was a “deeply tragic case” where dysfunction has continued in the family home. Taylor’s step-father, Damian Wellington, was the victim […]
Mother and son accused of paying off witness
(CNS): The prosecution opened an unusual case on Monday against a mother and son who are both charged with conspiracy to defeat the course of justice. The pair have been charged over allegations they paid off a witness in an effort to stop her from giving evidence against the son. Kurt Stevenson Carter (30) and […]
Men jailed for 15 years in fatal bar beating
(CNS): Jeremy Parchman (21) and Shimar Kelly (23) were each sentenced on Tuesday to seven and a half years in prison for the manslaughter of Dinesh Asanka Fernando Wannukawatta-Waduge from Sri Lanka, who was working in Cayman as a chef when he was killed at Bananas nightclub, George Town, in 2019. Parchman and Kelly were […]
Legal exec acquitted in corruption case
(CNS): An 18-year veteran of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) was acquitted on Friday of one count of breach of trust after a seven-week trial. Evita Ann Dixon (38) had worked as a legal executive in the legal department and the ODPP for almost two decades but was accused in 2019 […]
Defence raises racism allegations in corruption case
(CNS): A lawyer defending Evita Dixon, a former legal executive with the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) charged with a breach of trust, challenged the crown’s case against her on Monday, as he pointed to evidence that the office was a toxic environment. Courtney Griffiths QC told a jury that the black and […]
Father denies murder of son
(CNS): Roger Deward Bush (46) from West Bay will go on trial at the end of October, facing murder and firearms charges for shooting his son dead in November 2019, after pleading not guilty on Friday. Bush is accused of killing Shaquille Demario Bush, who was just 24 years old at the time, at their […]
Child molester convicted of breach of trust
(CNS): A 44-year-old man from George Town has been found guilty of touching a 12-year-old child’s genitalia while he was taking care of her and her younger sisters after school in November last year, as he was “almost caught red-handed”. The child’s uncle, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had collected the children from […]
