Tag: violent crime
Fisherman admits jealousy-fueled attack
(CNS): A Honduran fisherman being held in Cayman on drug charges was jailed for six years by a judge Thursday for an attack in a jealous rage on a “defenceless woman”, committed while he was on bail. Meleton Rosales Maick (59) stabbed his victim in January at her own home after a party, at which […]
Police appeal for witnesses to nightclub violence
(CNS): With the victim of an assault in the early hours of Saturday morning still in hospital with serious injuries, the police are appealing for witnesses to what they believe was a fight between three men, which happened outside the Cotton Club on Shedden Road, George Town, around 4am. A 19-year-old man from Bodden Town […]
Two men arrested after fight at GT bar
(CNS): The police dealt with more problems of violence around licensed premises at the weekend after a fight outside a George Town nightclub landed one man in hospital and another two in the police cells. At around four o’clock on Saturday morning, 8 October, RCIPS officers responded to a report of a fight involving three […]
Throat slasher jailed for three years
(CNS): David Andrew Bodden (39) has been jailed for three years for cutting the throat of Blake Burrell with a scalpel in broad daylight on a busy cruise ship day in downtown George Town last summer. Bodden was handed a three-year sentence by Justice Charles Quin Thursday, several months after he was tried and found […]
Investigation opens into Camana Bay kids’ street brawl
(CNS): The RCIPS has confirmed that officers are investigating a brawl that broke out at Camana Bay on Saturday night involving minors. Police on patrol in the area responded to fights at around 10:30pm and again at 11:30pm but claimed the fighting kids quickly dispersed after their arrival. However, other eye-witness sources told CNS that as many as […]
Man gets 2½ year jail term for ‘prostitute’ attack
(CNS): A local man who was found not guilty of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman after the jury believed his defence that she was a prostitute was jailed for two and a half years on Monday for robbing and assaulting the woman. Walter Jordan McLaughlin had been acquitted by a jury of abducting and […]
Violence not answer to safety issues
(CNS): The police have said that carrying illegal weapons and engaging in acts of violence is not the answer to perceived threats made by people over personal safety. Following a number of recent cases in the courts where defendants were carrying knives or guns because they claimed their personal security was at risk, the RCIPS […]
Judge raises concerns over knife crime
(CNS): A Grand Court judge said that knife crime was “worryingly prevalent” and raised his concerns about people claiming to carry the weapons as protection, as he handed down a sentence of five years and six months to a Jamaican man convicted of stabbing his one-time friend in the heart following a card game dispute. […]
School chef denies charges in car park stabbing
(CNS): A 21-year-old local man who works as a chef at a government primary school denied two charges of assault and wounding on two people when he appeared in Grand Court Friday. Desly Kyshon Missick pleaded not guilty to allegations that he stabbed and assaulted his victims in the car park of Fete nightclub on […]
Jury delivers split verdict in robbery-sex crime case
(CNS): A jury returned two guilty and two not guilty verdicts Wednesday, following several hours deliberating the crown’s case against Walter Jordan McLaughlin (left) for abduction, indecent assault, robbery and common assault. The jury acquitted the local man of abduction and indecent assault but convicted him of robbery and common assault. The victim in the […]
Throat slasher faced significant provocation
(CNS): A George Town man will have to wait two more weeks to find out if he will serve time in jail for cutting the throat of another man who had threatened on more than one occasion to kill him. David Andrew Bodden was found guilty in March of unlawful wounding, the lesser of three […]
