Tag: murder trial
Men deny murdering Robinson outside GT nightclub
(CNS): Jonathan Alexander Woodhouse (28) from West Bay, Shaun Antonio Jackson (22) and Matthew Glasgow (26), both from Bodden Town, have all denied murdering Randy Kelsey Robinson (37) and wounding another man outside the Carib Café in May. Robinson was stabbed multiple times outside the nightclub on Shedden Road in George Town.
Driver pleads not guilty to murder in road-rage killing
(CNS): Bryan Welcome (41) pleaded not guilty to murder when he appeared in Grand Court on a Zoom link from HMP Northward Friday. The local grocery shop owner denied deliberately killing Omar Ryan when he ran over him in a car on 8 July along David Foster Road, close to the airport. Just before Ryan […]
‘Road rage’ suspect charged with murder
(CNS): Bryan Welcome (41) appeared in court Tuesday charged with the murder of Omar Ryan in an alleged road rage incident on David Foster Drive on Sunday night. Welcome appeared via Zoom from the detention centre, represented by defence attorney Dennis Brady. The case was transmitted to the Grand Court and Welcome was remanded in […]
Nightclub killer’s jail time cut by two years
(CNS): Mason Courtney Bryan (28)’s ten-year prison sentence for killing Recardo Lionel Pars (27) outside a nightclub complex at The Strand plaza during a fight has been cut to eight years after it was appealed. The Court of Appeal ruled this week that the provocation by the victim was substantial and Bryan’s response in the […]
Men accused of killing Robinson to go to trial
(CNS): Jonathan Alexander Woodhouse (28) from West Bay, Shaun Antonio Jackson (22) and Matthew Glasgow (26), both from Bodden Town, who are accused of murdering Randy Kelsey Robinson (37), will stand trial later this year. The three men have not yet formally pleaded guilty because of outstanding legal issues, but it was confirmed Friday that […]
Case against trio accused of GT murder stalled
(CNS): The three men accused of the murder of Randy Kelsey Robinson (37) on Shedden Road in George Town earlier this month did not answer the charges against them on Friday when they appeared in Grand Court for the first time. One of the lawyers in the case asked for and secured a month-long adjournment […]
Hung jury in murder trial, Dixon to be retried
(CNS): After more than two days of deliberation, the seven women and five men of the jury in the trial of Javon James Dixon (29) for the murder of Jovin Omar Fuentes (32) confirmed Tuesday that they were unable to reach a verdict. Justice Cheryll Richards dismissed the jurors after they sent a final note […]
Lawyer accuses family of collusion in murder case
(CNS): The uncles and aunts of Jovin Omar Fuentes (32), who was shot and killed last summer in front of them, were not telling the truth when they gave evidence in the trial of Javon James Dixon (29) and colluded against him even though he was not the gunman, defence lawyer Amelia Fosuhene claimed as […]
Dixon’s story ‘a complete concoction’, says crown
(CNS): Javon James Dixon (29), who is on trial for the murder of his friend, Jovin Omar Fuentes (32), last summer lied to the police about many things, Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Candia James-Malcolm said Tuesday. As she summed up the crown’s case against him, she said that his story was “a complete concoction” […]
Dixon declines chance to tell his side in murder trial
(CNS): As the crown closed its case against Javon James Dixon (29) for the murder of Jovin Omar Fuentes (32) last summer, the Bodden Town man passed up the chance to tell his side of the story to the jury. Dixon, who has pleaded not guilty to murder and possession of an unlicensed firearm, declined […]
Victim shot and killed in front of family
(CNS): Jovin Omar Fuentes (32), a father of two, was gunned down outside a Bodden Town mini-mart last summer in front of several members of his family who said they recognised and knew the shooter, the court heard Tuesday. As the crown opened its case against Javon James Dixon (29) for the murder of Fuentes […]
