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The Court of Appeal on Monday dismissed Jules John Arjoon’s matter against the 27-year sentence imposed on him for manslaughter, rape, kidnapping and robbery.Arjoon pretended to be a taxi driver

The Court of Appeal on Monday dismissed Jules John Arjoon’s matter against the 27-year sentence imposed on him for manslaughter, rape, kidnapping and robbery.Arjoon pretended to be a taxi driver

King to face new trial for murder of Amy Annamunthodo 8 Hrs Ago FOR RETRIAL: Marlon King will have to face a fresh trial on the murder charge he is facing for the death of his stepdaughter Amy Anamunthodo, four, back in 2006. - MARLON King will have to face a new trial for the brutal murder of his four-year-old stepdaughter Amy Emily Annamunthodo. Two weeks ago, King successfully argued his appeal against his conviction, which was quashed by a three-member Court of Appeal panel. The court fou...

[UPDATED] Death sentence, conviction for killing child, 4, overturned Marlon King - MARLON KING has successfully argued an appeal against his conviction for the brutal murder of his four-year-old stepdaughter Amy Emily Annamunthodo in 2006. A three-member Court of Appeal panel on Tuesday, found several faults with his trial judge’s handling of his case in 2012. A retrial is being considered and a decision will be given on July 29 as the judges await further submissions and information from t...

Man to serve 4 years, 9 months for killing man wit hatchet in 2007 Friday 30 April 2021 The Court of Appeal has substituted a verdict of manslaughter for a man convicted of killing another man with a hatchet in 2007. The judges allowed his appeal and quashed Vishnu Beharrys conviction. Selivering their decision at a virtual hearing on Thursday, Justices of Appeal Alice Yorke-Soo Hon, Gillian Lucky and Malcolm Holdip said it was a fitting case to substitute the conviction of manslaughter, since ...

Watson Duke fined $1,200 for pulling fire alarm at 2017 Arima protest Watson Duke - Public Services Association (PSA) president and leader of the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) Watson Duke was fined $1,200 on Thursday for an incident involving a fire alarm at the Arima Borough Corporation in 2017. Magistrate Avion Gill gave Duke a month to pay the fine – the maximum penalty under the Fire Services Act – but did not impose the three-month prison term because of his previous good ch...

Convicted rapist loses appeal over 2006 rape Wednesday 21 April 2021 A 39-year-old man who was sentenced to a little over 11 years in prison for raping a 14-year-old girl over 15 years ago has lost his appeal. In an oral decision on Tuesday, Justices of Appeal Alice Yorke-Soo Hon, Mark Mohammed, and Maria Wilson, during a virtual hearing, dismissed all the grounds of appeal advanced by Peter Andrew Davis, who complained that the judge who presided over his trial made several errors which led to...

After being freed, Morvant man to face trial again for WASA fete murder Friday 26 February 2021 ALMOST three years after he was freed by a High Court judge who upheld an application challenging the reliability of the evidence in the case, a 41-year-old Morvant man will be re-indicted for the murder of a man after a WASA fete in 2009. Frankie Bartholomew, of Second Caledonia, was freed of murdering Marcus Mark on March 7, 2018. On Friday, Justices of Appeal Alice Yorke-Soo Hon, Maria Wilson and ...

Amy Annamunthodo killer appeals conviction Thursday 21 January 2021 CONVICTED child-killer Marlon King has asked the Court of Appeal to find fault with his trial judge’s handling of his case in 2012. He was sentenced to hang for the brutal murder of his four-year-old stepdaughter Amy Emily Annamunthodo. Annamunthodo was tortured and beaten to death, burned with cigarettes, hung from her hair and beaten until her heart ruptured. King was charged with killing the child – who weighed 33 pounds...