Courts
Court places media gag order on child rapist
(CNS): A 34-year-old resident of George Town who was sentenced to thirteen and a half years in jail last week for raping an 11-year-old girl twice in 2022 cannot be identified. Because the man is facing further similar charges, the court is protecting his identity to ensure that the jury at his next trial will […]
Ex-football club boss denies jury tampering
(CNS): Allen Kennedy Ebanks, from George Town, pleaded not guilty on Friday when he appeared in Grand Court for the first time, facing allegations of jury tampering. Ebanks, who was the president of FC International when the George Town team was functioning, is accused of trying to influence one of the people sitting on the […]
Ex-NHDT chair admits mistakes over waste scandal
(CNS): Geoffry William Ebanks (47), the former chair of the National Housing and Development Trust who resigned after he was charged with corruption in 2022, told a jury on Tuesday that he doesn’t think he is guilty of the offences he has been charged with. Nevertheless, he accepted that a “lot of mistakes were made” […]
Suspect denies 15 counts of sexual abuse of girls
(CNS): A 24-year-old UK national has denied a catalogue of allegations against him relating to the sexual abuse of three girls aged between 11 and 14 years from January last year until March 2024. The man is accused of 15 counts of various sexual offences, including rape and assault by penetration and possessing pornographic videos […]
Addiction led nurse to bring cocaine for wedding trip
(CNS): Yoojin Oh, a nurse from the United States, was fined $11,038 by the Grand Court on Friday for trying to smuggle more than 7 grams of cocaine into the Cayman Islands last month when she arrived for a destination wedding, which she missed. Justice Cheryll Richards accepted that Oh had brought the drug with […]
Ganja smuggling suspects bailed after being charged
(CNS): Three men who were arrested last week after a drug bust at a residential compound in the industrial area have been released on bail after they were charged with possession of ganja with intent to supply. One of the men, a 57-year-old resident of George Town, has also been charged with possession of criminal […]
Prison officer denies misconduct charge over ganja
(CNS): Derron Winston Watson, a senior officer at HMP Northward, appeared in Grand Court on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to one charge of misconduct in public office. Watson was allegedly found in possession of ganja during a joint operation by HM Cayman Islands Prison Service, the Department of Public Safety Communications and the RCIPS […]
Ex-US Army Lt. Col. fined $22k for loaded magazine
(CNS): A retired senior officer in the United States Army was fined $22,000 for entering the Cayman Islands with a loaded magazine in his backpack. When Terry Torraca, from Franklin, Tennessee, was stopped by security staff at Owen Roberts International Airport in early March, he apologised and told the authorities he had forgotten to check […]
Wedding guest pleads guilty to importing cocaine
(CNS): A visitor from the United States who came to the Cayman Islands last month for a wedding has pleaded guilty to importing over seven grams of cocaine. Yoojin Oh, who was arrested at the airport carrying four small baggies, each containing just under two grams, was part of a destination wedding party and brought […]
Shutter fitter jailed for five years for fraud on clients
(CNS): Garfield Antonio Robb, who was convicted of nine counts of obtaining property by deception last year, has been jailed for five years after conning clients out of at least $15,400 over a period of almost seven years between 2014 and 2020. Robb was convicted after trial for various scams, including accepting money for jobs […]
Webb’s sentence on hold as FIFA case on appeal
(CNS): Almost nine years after Jeffery Webb was arrested along with 13 other football, marketing and media executives in Zurich in the massive FIFA corruption case brought by the US Department of Justice, his sentencing has been postponed yet again. He was due to go before a judge to finalise his case last month, but […]
