Tag: Cayman Islands Court of Appeal
Ex-security guard’s moving pleas fail to cut jail time
(CNS): A Jamaican man who is serving six years in jail for wounding with intent earlier this year, after he stabbed a customer with a flick knife while working at a George Town bar, has failed in his bid to cut his jail term. In an emotional plea to the appeal court panel, in which Kenroy […]
Teacher’s sex crime sentence cut
(CNS): The three-year sentence given to a teacher who was convicted of several sex offences in relation to teenage boys in his drama class at a government school has been reduced to two years by the appeal court. Delroy James, who admitted several acts of indecent assault and gross indecency on three 15-year-old students, was sentenced in […]
NYD diamond robbers’ sentences stick
(CNS): The three men convicted of the New Year’s Day jewel heist in 2014 after they were chased down by the police commissioner as they tried to escape all failed in their bid to reduce their robbery sentences Monday. James McLean and Jonathan Ramoon had been convicted of possession of an unlicensed firearm as well […]
Ex-cop goes to jail in wake of failed appeal
(CNS): A former police officer who was convicted 18 months ago of bribery began serving his three-year jail sentence today after his conviction was upheld on appeal. Although convicted of soliciting a bribe from a Filipino man in exchange for not pursuing a possible theft charge, Elvis Kelsey Ebanks has not yet served any time […]
Sex offender fails in bid to cut jail term
(CNS): A lawyer’s arguments that a judge had been too harsh and rigid when sentencing his client in connection with the defilement of a 15-year-old girl failed to persuade the appeal court that three years and seven months sentence should be cut. Representing Shankino William Ebanks (32) during the third week of the Court of […]
UK Privy Council restores gun conviction
(CNS): A West Bay man will go back to serving a ten-year jail term for possession of an unlicensed gun this week after the Privy Council in London overturned a Cayman Islands Court of Appeal decision Wednesday and reinstated the conviction by the original trial judge. Robert Aaron Crawford (22) was found guilty of having […]
Appeal court upholds rape conviction
(CNS): A local man who was convicted in 2012 of raping his ex-lover multiple times has had his appeal against the conviction dismissed. Philip Rose (49) was found guilty of rape by the chief justice after he stalked, harassed, abused, assaulted, abducted and raped his former girlfriend, a Swiss national, who claimed at trial she […]
Appeal court to hear cases from murder to corruption
(CNS): Prisoners serving life sentences for serious crimes and offenders who have been convicted but have not yet served a day in jail are included in a diverse list for the appeal court this month. Over the next few weeks, President of the Cayman Islands Appeal Court Sir John Chadwick, John Martin QC and Sir Alan Moses […]
Lifers’ convictions stick in appeal cases
(CNS): Two killers and one serial rapist will all remain behind bars after the Court of Appeal upheld the convictions for murder against Raziel Jeffers and Chad Anglin, as well as a double rape conviction against Jeffrey Barnes. All three men are serving life sentences. Jeffers was convicted of gunning down gang rival Damion Ming […]
QC accuses judge of bias in murder case
(CNS): A leading British QC pulled no punches when he appeared before the appeal court Friday and accused the judge in the 2014 trial of Raziel Omar Jeffers, who was convicted for Damion Ming’s murder, of bias. Brian O’Neill QC said that during his summing up Justice Malcolm Swift had “scuttled” the defence case with “inappropriate […]
Gun conviction sticks as DNA-based appeal fails
(CNS): A young West Bay man wept quietly in the dock Thursday when the appeal court rejected his attempt to have his firearms conviction overturned. Ray Kennedy Smith, who is 21 years old and serving a mandatory ten-year sentence in HMP Northward after he was convicted in November 2013 of possession of an unlicensed handgun, […]
