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Pigotts man owes over $2K for chopping his friend
A 33-year-old man from Pigotts has been fined $1,000 and ordered to pay compensation in the same amount for wounding his fellow villager and friend.
The sentence was passed down on Monday by Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel-Edwards in the All Saints Magistrate’s Court.
Last week, Cecil Hixon admitted to chopping his “friend” with a cutlass on May 1.
According to the facts of the case, on the night in question, Hixon arrived in the vicinity of the Pigotts playing field where the complainant and some friends were sitting and drinking alcohol.
For an unknown reason, Hixon began pushing the complainant to the point where the complainant threatened to contact a friend for him.
Alleged arsonist granted 100K bail
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Twenty-one-year-old Shukur Hodge appeared before Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel-Edwards yesterday afternoon, having been recently charged with arson.
Hodge’s lawyer, Wendel Robinson, in making an oral application for his client to receive bail, indicated that the young Villa resident has been in custody since the day of the incident.
Robinson said that consequently he was planning to file a writ of habeas corpus because more than 48 hours had passed before his client was charged and brought to court, and that is a “breach of my client’s rights,” he said.
The attorney further stated that he’d indicated to the police that he wished to be present when his client was interviewed, but they “disrespected me by not having his lawyer present while he was giving his statement.
By Latrishka Thomas Latrishka.thomas@antiguaobserver.com There is in fact a case to be answered by the four law enforcement officials charged with the murder of…
Order for specific disclosure upheld in Bruce Greenaway murder case
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By Orville Williams
“A good day for justice”, remarked defence attorney Andrew O’Kola who commended the actions of Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel-Edwards in upholding an order she issued last month.
That specific order was for the prosecution to make key information available to the defence representing the four accused in the Bruce Greenaway murder case.
During yesterday’s hearing in the All Saints Magistrate’s Court, Emanuel-Edwards noted that the prosecution had initially expressed no objections, last month, to the defence’s request for access to some police station diaries – which record the movement of on-duty officers – dated in and around the time Greenaway was reported missing.