Tag: violent crime
Kitchen tool assault lands mother in jail
(CNS): Lelieth Monique Welcome (36), a small restaurant owner from George Town and a mother of eight children, was given a 19-month prison sentence on Wednesday in connection with an assault on another woman at her restaurant with a kitchen implement, causing her a severe head injury. Welcome attacked the younger woman after her husband […]
Mother of 8 facing jail for violent attack
(CNS): A mother of eight children who attacked a woman with what was believed to be a kitchen cleaver after she saw her husband on the victim’s lap in the restaurant that the coupled owned is now facing a lengthy period in jail. The court heard Friday that Leleith Monique Welcome-Campbell (36) had committed the […]
Rapist’s 18-year sentence upheld
(CNS): Okeno Nicholas Solomon (26), who is currently serving a 20½-year sentence for rape, aggravated burglary, theft and sexual assault, had his appeal denied for reduction of his prison term. In a hearing held Monday, 2 September, the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal rejected arguments to cut the sentence that covered two separate instances as […]
Security guard run down by suspect at marina
(CNS): A security guard is in critical condition after a run-in with trespassers at a George Town restaurant and yacht marina Sunday night. Police said they received a report around 8:45pm about an altercation at a business at the end of North Sound Road. A security guard had come upon four young men using the […]
Bodden Town man arrested for GBH
(CNS): A 30-year-old man from Bodden Town was taken into police custody Wednesday, having been arrested over allegations of a serious assault as well as damage to property in relation to an incident last month in Belford Estates. The man was arrested after his victim turned out to have sustained a serious injury after he […]
Second man charged in GT shooting
(CNS): A second man has been arrested and charged in connection with a shooting in South Church Street in the early hours of 26 April, in which a man received two gunshot wounds. Police have revealed few details about the case but the two accused men, both aged 21, have been charged with burglary-related offences. […]
Argument turns into violent assault
(CNS): One man has been treated for serious but non-life-threatening injuries and a second man has been charged with a list of offences after an argument turned violent on Thursday afternoon in George Town. Police said they were called to the hospital after a report that a man had been assaulted with a machete during […]
Two people mugged in WB hours apart
(CNS): Police are investigating two separate street robberies that happened in West Bay less than ten hours apart but appear to have been perpetrated by different people. The first of the two muggings happened off Rosett Close in the Mount Pleasant area at about 4:45pm Thursday, when a lone robber took a woman’s bag at […]
Crown accepts plea from man who attacked mother
(CNS): Prosecutors have accepted an admission by Jeffrey William Powery (33) that he seriously assaulted his mother with intent to do her harm in a violent incident in December at her West Bay home. The crown had originally charged Powery with attempted murder but he had denied trying to kill Jolene Powery, while admitting GBH […]
Cops assaulted during GT arrest
(CNS): Two Royal Cayman Island Police Service officers ended up in hospital Monday after they arrested a 19-year-old man who then became verbally and physically aggressive towards the officers and resisted arrest. During the struggle a watch that one of the officers was wearing was damaged and both officers received non-life-threatening-injuries. The police officers were […]
Man attacked with machete on home doorstep
(CNS): A George Town man who answered a knock on the door of his home Sunday evening was assaulted with what he believed was a machete by a masked man on the other side of the door. Police responded to the report of the attack at around 9pm and learned that as the victim opened […]
