Tag: manslaughter
Crown: Care home workers culpable for teen’s death
(CNS): Michael Stewart and Larry Levers were so “extraordinarily negligent” when they took a group of teenage boys from the Bonaventure Boys Home Home fishing in November 2015 that they are culpable for the death of 14-year-old Risco Batten, who drowned that day while in their care, the crown said as it opened the manslaughter […]
Boat captain charged with manslaughter
(CNS) UPDATED: A 36-year-old man from Prospect, who was captaining a boat that smashed into a smaller vessel in the North Sound this summer, killing two men and badly injuring a woman on board, has been charged. Sean McDonald who was behind the wheel of the Pepper Jelly, a white 32-foot Scarab centre console boat […]
GT man arrested in fatal boat collision
(CNS) A 35-year-old man from George Town has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with a fatal boat crash in the North Sound in August. Police have not identified the suspect, who has been bailed as investigations continue. He was said to be captaining the Pepper Jelly, a 32-foot Scarab centre-console boat with […]
Judge goes easy on son in tragic killing
(CNS): Waylon Rivers (20) from North Side, who killed his father, Timothy Rivers (66), in June last year after a lifetime of abuse, was given a three-year sentence by a judge on Tuesday. Justice Tim Owen described it as an unusual and tragic case, in which there were “uniquely powerful mitigating factors”, including a high […]
Lifetime of abuse drove son to kill
(CNS): Waylon Rivers (20) from North Side killed his father, Timothy Rivers (66), in June last year in a spontaneous attack that was the result of a lifetime of “absolutely relentless” verbal and sometime physical abuse by his parent, the court heard Thursday. Rivers appeared for sentencing following his admissions earlier this year to manslaughter […]
Second carer denies manslaughter
(CNS): The second of two men charged with manslaughter and child cruelty after a teenage boy in their care drowned during what should have been a supervised fishing trip pleaded not guilty to both charges on Friday. Larry Levers (46) denied the allegations and will join Michael Stewart (65), who pleaded not guilty at a previous […]
Son denies trying to kill his mother
(CNS): Jeffrey William Powery (33) pleaded guilty on Friday to wounding with intent in connection with charges against him for an attack on his mother at her West Bay home. Powery has denied trying to kill her but has admitted a violent assault that left Jolene Powery (58) in a coma more than three months […]
Man extradited from US charged with teen’s death
(CNS): A former supervisor at a local boys home who was extradited from the United States appeared in court Friday charged with manslaughter and child cruelty in connection with the death of 14-year-old Risco Batten, who drowned in South Sound in November 2015. Larry Levers (46) is one of two men charged in the case […]
Ex-care home worker faces extradition for manslaughter
(CNS): Two men have been charged with manslaughter and child cruelty in connection with the death of a teenage resident at the Bonaventure Boys Home. Risco Batten (14) drowned in South Sound in November 2015 during a fishing trip with the men, who were both supervisors at the home. One of the two men, Larry Levers […]
Watler jailed for 4½ years for killing boyfriend
(CNS): Brianna Watler (26) was sentenced Thursday to four and a half years in prison, following her conviction for the manslaughter of her boyfriend, Azzan Sherieff (23), in September last year in the wake of a violent altercation between the couple. Given the circumstances of the case, Justice Carlisle Greaves found that there was a […]
Watler admits killing boyfriend
(CNS): Brianna Michelle Watler (25) has admitted killing her boyfriend, Azzan Sherieff (23), during a fight last September in North Side, where the couple lived. Watler pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter when the charge was put to her in Grand Court Friday. Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryll Richards QC told the […]
