Tag: Cheryll Richards
![Woman gets 95 months for killing lover Woman gets 95 months for killing lover](http://caymannewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Olga-Smith-leaving-court-to-go-to-jail-150x150.png)
Woman gets 95 months for killing lover
(CNS): Olga Elizabeth Smith (37) was sentenced to seven years and eleven months in jail by Justice Cheryll Richards on Wednesday for killing Marvin Xavier Conolly-Armendarez (27) in March last year. Smith had pleaded guilty in October to manslaughter due to provocation after she stabbed her lover, the father of her new baby, during yet […]
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Wounding conviction lost despite guilty pleas
(CNS): Prosecutors watched a man who had admitted charges of GBH walk free from court recently when a conviction was lost after the crown pushed for the case to go to trial. Geoff Ryan Scott was found not guilty by a judge in November as a result of a legal loophole, even though he stabbed […]
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Appeal court orders new trial in status scam
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction of Judith Douglas for a status scam theft of almost $2 million. In a ruling delivered on Monday by Judge Cheryll Richards on behalf of the higher court, the panel found that Douglas did not get a fair trial because of comments made by […]
![DPP appointed as Grand Court judge DPP appointed as Grand Court judge](http://caymannewsservice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Cheryll-Richards-QC-300-150x150.jpg)
DPP appointed as Grand Court judge
(CNS): After 22 years of prosecuting offenders in the Cayman Islands, Cheryll Richards, QC will begin judging them next month after she takes up a position on the local bench. The current director of public prosecutions, Richards has been appointed as a full-time judge of the Grand Court and will take up her new seat on […]
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Governor reviews extradition request
(CNS): The Cayman Islands governor has not yet certified a request by the Turkish government to extradite a German citizen who was arrested on an Interpol warrant in Cayman when he arrived here on a cruise ship last November. Celal Kildag (58) appeared in court Friday on the eve of the legal deadline for his possible […]