Courts
Man jailed after streaming attack on Snapchat
(CNS): Sidney Henry (21) will serve at least ten months of a 20-month sentence in jail after he pleaded guilty to what a judge called a “vicious assault” last year on a former friend. As well as the violence inflicted, Henry also cut off his victim’s hair locks and streamed the entire assault on the […]
ODPP refers criminal defence attorney to police
(CNS): A recent judgment in the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal, in which the inappropriate conduct of a criminal defence attorney led to the quashing of a serious conviction against one of his clients, has triggered a police investigation. Keith Myers, who continues to represent clients in various criminal cases, is accused of sexually harassing […]
Crown: Couple imported fentanyl in FedEx package
(CNS): A George Town couple charged with drug importation and money laundering used FedEx to bring in a quantity of ganja and 51 fentanyl pills, totalling over five grams, in a package marked as containing boots, t-shirts and a small rug, the crown told a jury on Tuesday. Renae Hamilton and her now estranged partner, […]
Tortuga robber fails to get prison term cut
(CNS): Richard Edward Nash (28), who was convicted of armed robbery at the Tortuga liquor store in 2020 and sentenced to twelve years and ten months, has failed to get that time reduced. In a ruling published Friday, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal said it didn’t consider the sentence excessive, “let alone manifestly excessive”, […]
Employee admits stealing $42k from boss
(CNS): A Caymanian woman who worked for a floor covering company has admitted stealing $42,000 from her former employer, Randolph Stanford, using over a dozen forged cheques between November 2021 and March 2022. Samantha Angella McLaughlin has pleaded guilty to 16 charges of theft and forgery and has been bailed until an expected sentencing hearing […]
Brac man admits using fake note at liquor shop
(CNS): Tyler Foster Scott from Cayman Brac pleaded guilty to one count of uttering a forged note when he appeared in court on Friday via Zoom from a treatment centre on Grand Cayman. Scott admitted using a counterfeit $100 bill at Blackbeard’s liquor store in September 2022. Scott’s sentencing hearing was postponed for three months […]
Welcome was ‘a bit angry’ when he kicked dying man
(CNS): Bryan Roy Welcome (42) admitted there was “a little bit of anger” when he kicked Omar Ryan (34), a former grocery business associate, as he lay dying in a parking lot after Welcome ran him down, which he claimed was self-defence. Welcome has been charged with the murder of Ryan, who died from injuries […]
Defendants convicted in $500k bank burglary
(CNS): David Samuel Bodden, Statan Omar Clarke and Elton David Webster have been found guilty of burglary in relation to more than half a million dollars stolen from the Royal Bank of Canada in George Town almost eight years ago. Eliza Webster was found guilty of one count of possession of criminal property in relation […]
Intent key to murder charge against grocer
(CNS): Bryan Roy Welcome (42) intended to kill or cause his business associate, Omar Ryan (34), serious harm when the car he was driving ran over him in a parking lot off David Foster Road last July, according to the crown case against him. The incident followed an altercation between the two men over a […]
Suspicion is not evidence, say lawyers in bank burglary
(CNS): After a two-month-long trial, all four lawyers representing the defendants accused of being part of a burglary at a George Town bank almost eight years ago urged the jury not to convict on suspicion because that is not evidence. As the attorneys delivered closing arguments on Monday and Tuesday, they all said the crown […]
Woman sent to prison for witness tampering
(CNS): A judge handed down what she described as “a short, sharp shock” to a woman found guilty of trying to prevent a friend from giving evidence against her in relation to an assault. Janelle Lavern Greenwood (48) ultimately pleaded guilty to stabbing her husband in the neck while drinking at home with friends one […]
