Tag: Greg Walcolm

Bush due in court facing indecent assault charges

Bush due in court facing indecent assault charges

| 07/03/2023

(CNS) UPDATED: The former speaker of the Cayman Islands parliament and West Bay MP, McKeeva Bush (WBW), has been charged with two counts of indecent assault and alternatively common assault in relation to an incident occurring at a Caribbean Tourism Organization cocktail event at the Ritz-Carlton resort last September. Police said he was due to […]

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Crown: RCIPS staffer’s ‘road rage’ fuelled data misuse

Crown: RCIPS staffer’s ‘road rage’ fuelled data misuse

| 28/10/2022

(CNS): A police support staff member found herself in the dock this week accused of misusing the RCIPS database to access information to track down and confront a driver who made her angry on the way to work after a near miss due to a broken brake light. Veronica Victoria Cole from East End pleaded […]

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Murder charges dropped in Vic’s Bar killing

Murder charges dropped in Vic’s Bar killing

| 25/11/2021 | 23 Comments

(CNS): All of the charges against Ezekiel Nelson Carter (36) in relation to the murder of Wayne McLean at Vic’s Bar in July and the attempted murder of five other people have been dropped. On Thursday morning, prosecutor Greg Walcom appeared in Grand Court on behalf of the crown and revealed that, in light of new […]

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‘Tittle-tat’ fails to help convicted ex-immigration officer

‘Tittle-tat’ fails to help convicted ex-immigration officer

| 08/11/2021 | 11 Comments

(CNS): An attempt by a former senior immigration officer to have his conviction for corruption quashed or at least get his four-year jail term cut has failed. When Marcus Alexander appeared before the Court of Appeal in September, he argued that guilty verdicts against him in a major bribery scandal involving 12 co-defendants should be […]

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Teen suffered campaign of ‘domestic violence’

Teen suffered campaign of ‘domestic violence’

| 06/07/2021 | 14 Comments

(CNS): A lawyer told a court that his young disabled client had suffered “a campaign of domestic violence” and provocation at the hands of his step-father, Damian Wellington, not unlike that suffered by a spouse in an abusive relationship, before he snapped and stabbed him multiple times in an altercation last year. Renaldo Keanua Taylor, […]

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Case against suspect in fatal smash dropped

Case against suspect in fatal smash dropped

| 02/02/2021 | 24 Comments

(CNS): Philip Price (34), who arrested almost three years ago but not charged until last July in relation to a crash in East End in which his wife was killed, has now been discharged by the court but may face future charges. Having taken more than 18 months to charge Price with causing death by […]

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Disabled teen says stabbing was self-defence

Disabled teen says stabbing was self-defence

| 20/01/2021

(CNS): Renaldo Taylor (19), who is facing charges of wounding his stepfather last June, told police that he stabbed Damian Wellington in self-defence during an angry attack at their North Side home. As Taylor’s trial drew to a close in Grand Court on Tuesday, a jury heard that the teenager, who lost a leg in […]

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