Tag: attempted murder
Ex-fugitive charged with attempted murder
(CNS): A 26-year-old West Bay man has been charged with attempted murder, threats to kill, and wounding following a violent assault last week on a woman he knows. Alejandro Cardenas-Powery went on the run last Sunday afternoon (21 October) after police and other emergency services were called to a home in West Bay, where a woman […]
Brac man stabbed, woman charged with attempted murder
(CNS) UPDATED: The 29-year-old woman who was arrested on suspicion of assault GBH in Cayman Brac yesterday has been charged with attempted murder and wounding with intent in connection with an early morning attack on Tuesday. The woman is accused of stabbing a man known to her twice during an attack at an address on Legend […]
East End man facing attempted murder charge
(CNS): A 22-year-old-man from East End has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder following a stabbing at a yard in the district last month. Police said the man remains in police custody as investigations continue into the assault, in which the victim was seriously injured and remains in the hospital’s ICU in stable condition. […]
Octogenarian charged with trying to kill wife
(CNS): An 83-year-old Caymanian man from George Town appeared in summary court on Monday, facing attempted murder charges following a violent assault on his wife last week. William Glasgow was arrested after the attack at the couple’s home in Tropical Gardens last Wednesday night. The victim, who is understood to be in her mid-seventies, remains […]
Jury acquits women in Fete shooting case
(CNS): A jury acquitted two West Bay women of all the counts against them in what the crown had presented as a feud-fuelled gang-related case of violence against two men last February. But the five men and two women of the jury panel convicted both the male defendants of GBH with intent, although they were […]
Jury begins deliberations in nightclub shooting
(CNS): A jury began deliberating on Tuesday, around 3:00 in the afternoon, in the Fete violent feud shooting case after the judge spent some four hours summarising the law and the evidence. After a long trial, the seven jurors will need to decide on a list of charges against the four defendants. The crown claims […]
Crown’s witnesses attacked in violent feud trial
(CNS): Defence attorneys representing Kashwayne Hewitt and Malik and Tashika Mothen, as they addressed the jury on behalf of their clients, said the evidence given by the crown’s two key witnesses was inconsistent and implausible. The defendants are accused of trying to kill Daniel Bennett and Carlney Campbell during a feud-fuelled violent incident outside Fete nightclub […]
Crown sums up case of nightclub shooting
(CNS): Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Patrick Moran summed up the crown’s case against four defendants Friday regarding a shooting outside Fete nightclub in February. Now the jury has to consider the part they played, if any, in a catalog of accusations, from attempted murder to the possession of an illegal gun. The prosecutor says […]
Woman denies involvement in violence
(CNS): A West Bay woman who is charged in a gang-related case has denied being involved in any violence on the night that Daniel Bennett and Carlney Campbell were assault and shot outside Fete nightclub in February this year. Taking the witness stand in her own behalf, Tashika Mothen (29), who is charged with attempted […]
Five on trial over violent gun fuelled feud
(CNS): Five people from West Bay crammed into the dock in the Grand Court Monday, as the crown opened its case against the group in relation to an attempted murder outside a West Bay Road nightclub earlier this year. Malik Mothen (35), Tashika Mothen (29), Kashwayne Hewitt (20), Daniella Tibbetts (24) and Leshawn Forrester (23) […]
Bananas gun suspect remanded in custody
(CNS): A 21-year-old man from Newlands was remanded in custody Thursday after appearing in Summary Court charged with a list of serious offences. Luciano Estevan Jackson-Martinez was charged with attempted murder, wounding with intent and the possession of an unlicensed firearm in connection with a shooting outside the Bananas nightclub in George Town last week. […]
