Courts
Shooter jailed for 23 years for killing friend over $175
(CNS): Javon James Dixon was sentenced on Thursday to 23 years in prison for gunning down and killing his long-time friend, Jovin Omar Fuentes (32), in the street in July 2022 due to a feud over $175 owed on the use of a car. Dixon was tried for murder twice. The first one ended with […]
Three charged in prescription drug fraud case
(CNS): Two women and one man appeared in court Tuesday facing multiple conspiracy charges relating to a prescription drug fraud in which they are accused of illegally obtaining and supplying opioids. According to the RCIPS, the three people were charged on Friday after an investigation that began in February last year. They were allegedly using […]
Appeal court upholds life sentence for ‘appalling offences’
(CNS): Elmer Wright (29), who is serving a life sentence with an 18-year minimum tariff in a UK prison, has failed in his effort to have the sentence overturned. He was convicted in 2020 of robbery, possession of an unlicensed gun and various other charges relating to a terrifying home invasion in 2017. Wright was […]
Ex-customs officer’s appeal on drug conviction fails
(CNS): Former customs officer David Lobo (39) must continue to serve a 16-year prison sentence after his appeal against a 2019 conviction for importing almost two kilos of cocaine was rejected on Thursday. In January 2019, Lobo was found guilty of smuggling the drug into the Cayman Islands in liquid form, in condoms and swallowed […]
Appeal court orders DPP to investigate lawyer
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has directed the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to take forward an investigation into a criminal defence attorney accused of sexually harassing a client in what the judges said was a “troubling case”. The higher court found that messages between Keith Myers and his client, Aisha […]
Lawyer’s ‘sexts’ lead to client’s successful appeal
(CNS): A Jamaican woman who was convicted of wounding in 2022 following a brawl at the beauty parlour where she worked was acquitted by the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal on Friday as a result of the behaviour of her defence lawyer. Aisha Jamilah English (33), who was found guilty of stabbing a colleague, appealed […]
Numbers shop killers get 10 and 14 years jail time
(CNS): Justin Kyle Jackson (24) will serve 14 years and one month in prison while Eric Williams Soto (23) will serve ten years for the manslaughter of retired prison officer Harry Elliott and the possession of a loaded illegal gun during a botched robbery at a numbers shop, run by an ex-cop, on School Road […]
Crown says man used Snapchat to groom teenage girl
(CNS): A 24-year-old man used the social media platform Snapchat, which deletes messages, pictures and videos within 24 hrs of them being viewed, to groom a 13-year-old girl whom he later raped in a hotel bathroom, according to the crown. As prosecutor Sarah Lewis opened the case against the man on Thursday, she told the […]
Ex-NHDT chair acquitted in soil scandal case
(CNS): After deliberating for more than eight hours over a two-day period, a jury of six women and one man found Geoffry William Ebanks not guilty of two corruption charges in relation to material cleared from the National Housing and Development Trust site in North Side that he directed to his own land and used as […]
Woodhouse jailed for 13 years in bar room stabbing
(CNS): Jonathan Alexander Woodhouse (29) from Bodden Town has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for wounding with intent in regards to a violent attack at the Carib Cafe last year where one man was killed. Woodhouse was one of three men who were tried for the murder of Randy Kelsey Robinson, but he was […]
Bodden Town man charged with drug dealing
(CNS: A Bodden Town man who was arrested last week has been charged with various drug offences, including supplying ganja and cocaine, police said. He appeared in court on Monday and was bailed on strict conditions. The 29-year-old man was arrested after a raid at his home, where drugs and other related evidence were found.
