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WESTERN BUREAU: High Court Justice Bertram Morrison did not mince words on Friday as he ordered Gregory Roberts, the man convicted of the murder of schoolgirl Shineka Gray, to serve a minimum of 50 years for the crime. In handing down the life...

The St James Circuit Court this morning sentenced Gregory Roberts, the man convicted of the 2017 murder of 15-year-old schoolgirl Shineka Gray, to life imprisonment with no chance of parole before serving 42 years behind bars. Roberts wore a...

WESTERN BUREAU: “WE ARE asking for life; non-eligibility before 50 years.” That was the plainly stated sentence proposed in the St James Circuit Court on Friday by prosecutor Andrea Martin-Swaby for Gregory Roberts, the man convicted of the 2017...

ST JAMES, Jamaica — Gregory Roberts, the man convicted of the murder of 15-year-old schoolgirl Shineka Gray in 2017, is to know his fate in a week when the presiding judge is expected to hand down his judgement. Following a two-day hearing in the St James Circuit Court on Friday afternoon, High Court Justice Bertram Morrison asked the court reporters to allow him to have a printed record of the...

Shineka Gray’s family pushes back memorial

ST JAMES, Jamaica - The man on trial for the killing of 15-year-old Shineka Gray in 2017, Gregory Roberts, has been found guilty. The verdict was handed down in the St James Circuit Court around 12:35 pm The seven-member jury was sent to deliberate the case shortly after Supreme Court Judge, Justice Bertram Morrison completed his summation at around 11:05 am on Wednesday. READ: Jury sent to deliberate in Shineka...

WESTERN BUREAU: “I am tired, I am weary, but even though I am crying, I am joyful. We are overjoyed.” That was the immediate reaction of Nickeda Gray, the aunt of 15-year-old Shineka Gray who was stabbed to death in 2017, moments after a seven-...

MONTEGO BAY, St James — As the police led Gregory Roberts away in handcuffs after he was found guilty of the murder of 15-year-old Shineka Gray, he cast a furtive glance at the teenager’s weeping relatives, as if he wanted to say something. He had looked back at them earlier during their tearful outburst when the verdict was announced. It took the seven-member jury a mere 90 minutes of deliberation...

Judge chides cops for high-handed approach

MONTEGO BAY, St James — Supreme Court judge Justice Bertram Morrison has suggested that proper guidelines were not followed when the police allowed the man accused of killing 15-year-old Shineka Gray in 2017, Gregory Roberts, to give a caution statement without the presence of a lawyer or a justice of the peace (JP). Justice Morrison made the statement during his summation of the trial against Roberts in the St James...