Tag: murder trial
Crown: Killers carried out murder with ruthless efficiency
(CNS): The men accused of killing Sven Brett Connor when they opened fire into his bedroom window at his home in East End, on Fiddlers Way, in December 2023, carried out the plan and execution with “ruthless efficiency”, Barnaby Jameson KC told a jury on Wednesday, as he opened the crown’s case against them. Prosecutors […]
Killer jailed for at least 35 years for double murder
(CNS): Wayne Bellafonte (34) from North Side was jailed last week for life following his conviction in September for the murder of Mark Andre Ebanks (36) and Eldon Charles Walton (55) outside the Globe Bar on Martin Drive, George Town, over three years ago. Bellefonte was also convicted of the attempted murder of a third man and possession of […]
Jury discharged halfway through murder trial
(CNS): Justice Cheryll Richards discharged a jury of eight women and four men on Tuesday, exactly one week after the crown opened its case against Kirk Lindsay Watler (55) from Bodden Town for killing George Ian Duffle (51) in October 2022. The judge released the jury for legal reasons, and in a brief explanation in […]
‘Road rage’ killer walks free after jury acquits
(CNS): Bryan Roy Welcome (42) was found not guilty of murdering his grocery business associate, Omar Ryan (34), last summer when he ran over him in a warehouse parking lot following an altercation. After less than four hours of deliberation, the jury returned the unanimous not guilty verdict to murder and confirmed they had also […]
Welcome was ‘a bit angry’ when he kicked dying man
(CNS): Bryan Roy Welcome (42) admitted there was “a little bit of anger” when he kicked Omar Ryan (34), a former grocery business associate, as he lay dying in a parking lot after Welcome ran him down, which he claimed was self-defence. Welcome has been charged with the murder of Ryan, who died from injuries […]
Intent key to murder charge against grocer
(CNS): Bryan Roy Welcome (42) intended to kill or cause his business associate, Omar Ryan (34), serious harm when the car he was driving ran over him in a parking lot off David Foster Road last July, according to the crown case against him. The incident followed an altercation between the two men over a […]
‘It’s a lie!’ suspect yells at court over murder charge
(CNS): Roland Murphy Welcome (33), who appeared in court via video link on Friday alongside co-defendant Antascio Rankin (29), emphatically denied killing Sven Brett Connor (42) in what is understood to have been a gang-related shooting in East End in December. Welcome had initially refused to appear by video link to enter pleas for the […]
Killer to serve at least 31 years for murder at GT club
(CNS): Shaun Antonio Jackson (23) has been handed a life sentence and will serve at least 31 years before he can even be considered for release for the murder of Randy Kelsey Robinson (37), who was stabbed to death during a fight at a George Town bar in May last year. Jackson was charged alongside […]
Man denies murder during 2022 West Bay fight
(CNS): Kirk Lindsay Watler (54) from Bodden Town pleaded not guilty to murder when he appeared via video link from HMP Northward in Grand Court on Friday. Watler is accused of killing George Ian Duffell (51) in October 2022 when he stabbed him during a late-night confrontation in a West Bay yard on Birch Tree […]
Double murder trial delayed over forensic evidence
(CNS): Wayne Bellafonte Jr (32), from North Side, who was due to stand trial later this month for the murder of both Mark Andre Ebanks (36) and Eldon Charles Walton (55) in a drive-by shooting back in July 2021, has had the case postponed for at least the third time until later this year. Bellafonte’s lawyers […]
One man found guilty of murder as co-accused acquitted
(CNS): Shaun Antonio Jackson has been convicted of the murder of Randy Kelsey Robinson, who was stabbed to death during a fight at a George Town bar earlier this year. Jackson was charged with murder alongside Matthew Glasgow and Jonathan Alexander Woodhouse, but both of those men were acquitted of killing Robinson outside the Caribe […]
