Tag: Scott Wainwright
Bellafonte found guilty of 2021 double murder
(CNS): Wayne Alphanso Bellafonte Jr (33) was found guilty on Monday of murdering Mark Andre Ebanks (36) and Eldon Charles Walton (55) outside the Globe Bar on Martin Drive, George Town, over three years ago. Bellafonte was also convicted of the attempted murder of a third man and possession of an unlicensed firearm. This was the […]
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 […]
Appeal court upholds life sentence for ‘appalling offences’
(CNS): Elmer Wright (29), who is serving a life sentence with an 18-year minimum tariff in a UK prison, has failed in his effort to have the sentence overturned. He was convicted in 2020 of robbery, possession of an unlicensed gun and various other charges relating to a terrifying home invasion in 2017. Wright was […]
Expat walks free despite importing 3 unlicensed guns
(CNS): Prosecutors have dropped the case against Anton Parygin (45), a Canadian-Israeli-Russian citizen who arrived in the Cayman Islands in early 2022 with three unlicensed guns, despite being told by the police that he could not lawfully bring the weapons here until he had secured licences. In court on Friday, the crown officially stopped the […]
‘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 […]
Former support cop denies knowing killer
(CNS): A former RCIPS auxiliary constable accused of intimidating a key witness on behalf of a murderer has denied knowing the killer or ever telling the witness to keep quiet in relation to the investigation into the fatal shooting of Shaquille Bush. Courtney Levy (45) took the stand in his own defence this week and […]
Crown: Ex-auxiliary cop threatened murder witness
(CNS): Prosecutor Scott Wainright told the court Thursday that Courtney Alphanso Levy (46), a former auxiliary officer with the RCIPS, threatened a key witness in a murder trial into silence, acting on behalf of a man who was later convicted of killing his own son. As he opened the crown’s case against him, Wainright said […]
Customs officer admits having two illegal guns and ammo
(CNS): Timothy Earle McKenzie (45), a customs officer for more than two decades, has admitted to the illegal possession of two handguns and over 50 rounds of ammunition. The veteran civil servant, who has no previous convictions, appeared in court Wednesday and entered guilty pleas to two counts of possession of an illegal firearm and […]
Gunman was returning fire, says lawyer
(CNS): Mikkyle Brandon Leslie (36) could be facing more than a decade behind bars over a loaded gun that he fired outside a bar in George Town in February 2020. But at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday, his defence attorney told the court that Leslie had come under fire before he used the gun, which […]
Crown accepts killer was provoked in fight
(CNS): Mason Courtney Bryan (28) was provoked and had been involved in a violent encounter with his victim when he stabbed and killed Recardo Lionel Pars (27) outside the nightclub complex at The Strand plaza in August last year, prosecutors told the court Thursday. The crown has accepted that Bryan, who has admitted manslaughter, was […]
Lawyer: Evidence in home invasion trial ‘completely false’
(CNS): The attorney representing Shane Connor (44), who was convicted in September of numerous charges relating to a brutal and terrifying home invasion in 2017, argued that evidence given against Connor during the trial by the crown’s key witness, who was also convicted in the same crime, was “completely false”. During Connor’s sentencing hearing on […]
