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Three rapists who were found guilty of the 2016 rape of a teenager will together spend just over 43 years behind bars. Okquetho Jones, 30 years; 25-year-old Mikhail Thomas; and Romrado Wright, 30, on October 21, 2022 were all found guilty of rape of a teenager and were sentenced in High Court #1 on Monday, November 28 to prison terms. Jones and Wright will each spend just over 15 years …

A young mechanic with no driver’s license was revealed to have taken his boss’ vehicle without consent before he accidentally struck and killed a roadside vendor in 2019. Lorenzo McLean was around 25 years old at the time and worked for Ronald St Hilaire at a garage located in Diamond. On October 15, 2019, McLean made a decision to take the keys of his boss’ white Suzuki Escudo jeep, number …

AN HIV POSITIVE man who had sexual intercourse with, and twice indecently assaulted a nine year old girl will be incarcerated for 23 years. Cassel Lavia, now 46 years old said on Friday, June 3, “I’m so sorry about it, and giving an apology to everything.” According to the facts as related by Justice Brian Cottle at the High Court, the acts for which the former landscaper and gardener is …

Two men will be sentenced in June on separate charges of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13. On Friday, May 6 Cassel Lavia was slated to be sentenced by Justice Brian Cottle on one count of unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 13, as well as two counts of indecent assault. The child in this case was nine when she was indecently assaulted …

THE COURT HAS frowned upon the attitude of an offender who admitted to beating up a man because he knew of the said individual as being of a particular sexual orientation. At the High Court last week, three young men faced up to 14 years imprisonment for the offence of unlawful and malicious wounding, and up to 30 years incarceration for robbery. One of these men, Douglas Baptiste, who claimed …

THE COURT HAS frowned upon the attitude of an offender who admitted to beating up a man because he knew of the said individual as being of a particular sexual orientation. At the High Court last week, three young men faced up to 14 years imprisonment for the offence of unlawful and malicious wounding, and up to 30 years incarceration for robbery. One of these men, Douglas Baptiste, who claimed …

After a jury deliberated on the circumstances surrounding a 2017 incident at a rum shop in Union Island which left an elderly man paralysed, they acquitted the 38-year-old accused of causing grievous bodily harm.    Therefore, Rudolph ‘Bruno’ Andrews no longer has this charge hanging over his head, and he escaped any sentencing at the High Court that would have followed a guilty verdict.    Andrews, originally of Campden Park, …