Tag: assault
Pageant queen guilty of assault and all other charges
(CNS): The reigning Miss Universe Cayman Islands, Tiffany LeAnn Conolly (24), from West Bay, has been convicted of six criminal counts of assault, damage to property and disorderly conduct. The guilty verdicts were delivered Thursday by Magistrate Philippa McFarlane, who said the case against Conolly was “overwhelming”. The pageant queen had denied assaulting her former […]
Man critically injured during bar room violence
(CNS): One man is currently in hospital in critical condition after he was seriously assaulted during a spate of violence at a bar on Shedden Road, east of Eastern Avenue, at the weekend. CNS understands that a fight occurred around 2am on Saturday at the Sol y Luna bar, where a number of men were […]
Juvenile arrested in emerging gel gun trend
(CNS): The RCIPS is raising concerns that groups of young people are abusing toy gel guns, also known as gel blasters, capable of discharging water-filled beads and other liquid or soft pellets. A teenage boy was arrested Tuesday after an individual was hit by a projectile from a moving car. The trend appears to have […]
Young adult accused of assaulting off-duty cop
(CNS): A 19-year-old man from Bodden Town has now been charged with Assault ABH, Assaulting Police, and Theft following his arrest last week after an altercation with a police officer, who was in full uniform but off duty. The young adult who was due in court Monday is accused of approaching and threatening the officer […]
Local man admits double stabbing at 7M shops
(CN): Nicholas Romano Forbes (31), from Bodden Town, pleaded guilty on Friday to two charges of GBH, admitting that he stabbed one man in the stomach and another in the eye at the parking lot at Seven Mile Shops in June. No details of what led to the violent stabbing were revealed in court, but […]
Beauty queen claims she was victim in assault case
(CNS): The Miss Cayman Islands Universe title holder denied assaulting her ex-boyfriend’s father when she appeared in court on Monday. Tiffany Conolly (24), from West Bay, who faces several charges of assault and damage to property, claimed she was the victim during a chaotic night in October last year when she went to the home […]
Man arrested for harbouring teenage runaway
(CNS): Police have arrested a 20-year-old man from George Town on suspicion of harbouring a young person, resisting arrest and outstanding warrants after police found him with teenage runaway Jahsmine Ebanks (14), who had been missing from the home where she was staying in Bodden Town for almost two weeks. The girl was found at […]
Two boys arrested after serious assault
(CNS): Two juvenile boys have been arrested on suspicion of assault GBH after another boy was beaten up in the early hours of Thursday morning, 10 November. The victim was said to have left his home in the Red Bay area at 1am, and while walking in the neighbourhood, he was badly assaulted by three […]
Convicted man avoids jail to pay victim’s medical bill
(CNS): Joshua Allan Bush (22) from George Town avoided going to jail last month when his sentence for assault causing actual bodily harm was suspended for two years and a strict curfew was imposed to give him a chance at rehabilitation and allow him to work and pay off the CI$6,000 medical bill of his […]
Pageant queen accused of creating ‘explosive’ scene
(CNS): One of two men allegedly assaulted by pageant queen Tiffany Conolly (24) described a “chaotic and explosive situation” late on a Sunday night one year ago when the young woman came to his house looking for his son. The victim, who was the first witness in the trial of this year’s Miss Cayman Islands […]
Man seriously injured in early morning assault
(CNS): A man was seriously wounded with potentially life-changing injuries early Tuesday morning after he was struck in the face with an object, police said. The serious assault took place between 2am and 2:30am on Tuesday, 14 September, on Sound Way, George Town. No other details of the incident have been revealed, including what weapon, […]
