Tag: Oliver Blunt QC
Murder suspect turns down chance to tell his side
(CNS): After two weeks of hearing the crown’s evidence against him for the murder of his 24-year-old son, Shaquille Demario Bush, in November 2019, Roger Deward Bush (47) declined to give evidence on his own behalf on Monday, leaving his lawyer to tell his side of the story. Bush was warned by Justice Marlene Carter, […]
Second witness says Bush admitted killing son
(CNS): A West Bay woman told the court on Thursday that Roger Deward Bush confessed to her that he had killed his son hours after Shaquille Bush (24) was found dead in his yard on Miss Daisy Lane, having been shot multiple times. Candace Orrett Ebanks said she had tried to avoid hearing what had […]
Witness accused of ‘malicious’ false allegations
(CNS): Defence lawyer Oliver Blunt QC accused the crown’s key witness of “quite maliciously” making up an allegation against a police officer, claiming he had conveyed a threatening message from his client, Roger Deward Bush. He also argued that because Nikkieta Ebanks hated Bush, she had made up a false narrative that he had confessed […]
Crown: Father gunned down son in ‘hail of bullets’
(CNS): Roger Deward Bush gunned down his 24-year-old son, Shaquille Demario Bush, at their family home in West Bay in a “hail of bullets”, prosecutor Andrew Radcliffe QC told the court Friday. Bush, who is now 47, has pleaded not guilty to murder. The crown’s case against him is that in November 2019, he chased […]
