Tag: Justice Phillip St John-Stevens
Elvis walks free after judge stays case over jury process
(CNS): Elvis McKeever (64) from Cayman Brac walked away from Grand Court a free man on Thursday after a judge stayed two charges against him that had been brought under the ICT Act. McKeever was accused of threatening public officials in a social media rant, but the case was stopped by Justice Philip St John-Stevens […]
Burglar jailed for over 5 years for stealing safe
(CNS): Romario Desmond Brown (22) has been sentenced to five years and four months in prison for making off with a safe during an aggravated burglary in South Sound last year as well as a number of other burglaries. Brown was one of three men who, armed with a crowbar, broke into a home in […]
Man gets 16 years for part in deadly gunfight
(CNS): Mikkyle Brandon Leslie (36) was handed a 16-year prison term on Wednesday for his part in a gang-related shoot-out at a bar in Central George Town last summer in which two men lost their lives and two others were wounded. When the unknown killer had begun shooting outside the Globe Bar on Martin Drive […]
Man jailed for sexual assault on wife’s adult daughter
(CNS): A local man was jailed for five years on Wednesday for one count of indecent assault on his wife’s adult daughter, who was around 32 years old at the time, after he broke into her locked bedroom in the early hours of the morning just days before Christmas 2021. Willard Guidelitti Hurlston denied the […]
Gunman was returning fire, says lawyer
(CNS): Mikkyle Brandon Leslie (36) could be facing more than a decade behind bars over a loaded gun that he fired outside a bar in George Town in February 2020. But at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, his defence attorney told the court that Leslie had come under fire before he used the gun, which […]
‘Tittle-tat’ fails to help convicted ex-immigration officer
(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 […]
Scammer may soon be freed with sentence do-over
(CNS): Judith Douglas (55), who was convicted of conning a man out of more than CI$1.9 million in a massive PR and Caymanians status scam, could soon be released from prison after a judge re-sentenced her on Tuesday to serve five years. In a case that has stretched out for more than a decade, Douglas […]
Woman claims she got just $20K in $1.9M con
(CNS): Judith Douglas (55) has claimed that she kept less than $20,000 despite conning nearly $2 million from a victim in a major status scam as she said she gave the rest to a mystery man. Having tried to down play her role in the crime, Douglas will reappear in Grand Court on Wednesday for […]
