Tag: murder trial

‘Road rage’ killer walks free after jury acquits

‘Road rage’ killer walks free after jury acquits

| 21/06/2024 | 90 Comments

(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 […]

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Welcome was ‘a bit angry’ when he kicked dying man

Welcome was ‘a bit angry’ when he kicked dying man

| 27/05/2024

(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 […]

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Intent key to murder charge against grocer

Intent key to murder charge against grocer

| 17/05/2024

(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 […]

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‘It’s a lie!’ suspect yells at court over murder charge

‘It’s a lie!’ suspect yells at court over murder charge

| 18/02/2024

(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 […]

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Killer to serve at least 31 years for murder at GT club

Killer to serve at least 31 years for murder at GT club

| 15/02/2024 | 9 Comments

(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 […]

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Man denies murder during 2022 West Bay fight

Man denies murder during 2022 West Bay fight

| 19/01/2024

(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 […]

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Double murder trial delayed over forensic evidence

Double murder trial delayed over forensic evidence

| 11/01/2024

(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 […]

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One man found guilty of murder as co-accused acquitted

One man found guilty of murder as co-accused acquitted

| 14/12/2023 | 9 Comments

(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 […]

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Defendant wins appeal for KC in murder retrial

Defendant wins appeal for KC in murder retrial

| 05/12/2023 | 17 Comments

(CNS): The Grand Court has overturned a decision by the Legal Aid director not to fund a King’s Counsel from the UK for a man facing a second trial for murder. Javon James Dixon successfully appealed the decision in the Grand Court, arguing that there were no KCs on the island who would be able […]

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Elliott’s family say he was murdered

Elliott’s family say he was murdered

| 07/11/2023 | 18 Comments

(CNS): Family members of Harry Elliott Jr, who was gunned down and killed during a robbery gone wrong at a gambling shop in George Town last year, say the verdict of manslaughter was not what they had hoped for. They believe their loved one was a victim of murder. In a statement sent to CNS, […]

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Jackson and Soto found guilty of manslaughter

Jackson and Soto found guilty of manslaughter

| 02/11/2023 | 29 Comments

(CNS): Justin Kyle Jackson (24) and Eric William Soto (23) have been convicted of manslaughter and the possession of an unlicensed firearm in relation to a robbery gone wrong last summer in which Harry Elliott (63) was shot and killed. The six women and six men of the jury in this trial began deliberations after […]

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