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The psychological reports were not yet ready and as a result, killers Torrell Sergio Holligan and Kadeem Torian Wilkinson will have to wait a little longer before they are sentenced for murder.
Holligan, then 17, of Pool Land, No. 1, St John, and Wilkinson, also then 17, and a landscaper of Todd’s Land, St George, returned to the No. 2 Supreme Court on Tuesday, where they had pleaded guilty at a previous Session of the Continuous Sittings, to the non-capital murder of 48-year-old Kenrick “Jack” Spooner, of Pool Land, St John, on July 13, 2017.
Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale appeared for the Crown, while attorney Latisha Springer appeared for attorneys Angella Mitchell-Gittens and Sian Lange.
Each of the three judges gave a differing opinion but, in the end, two of them agreed to dismiss an appeal brought by the Crown against a magistrate’s decision in a rape matter involving two men. It was in the appeal brought by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) against a ruling by Magistrate Elwood Watts who was then presiding at the Oistins Magistrates’ Court. Stephen Alexander …
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Former wanted man Kadeem Kwmaine Hunte was remanded to prison when he appeared in the Oistins Magistrates’ Court yesterday on nine charges spanning three jurisdictions.
Hunte, 28, of Maple Villa, Hastings, Christ Church, was charged with but pleaded not guilty to entering Daphnie Forde’s house, sometime between February 11 and 19, this year, and stealing a $900 television.
He was, however, not required to plead to having unlawful sexual intercourse with a female on April 3, this year.
Those charges allegedly occurred with District B Oistins’ jurisdiction. (HLE)
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Conman and thief Ricardo Cortez Browne has an unenviable record when it comes to appearances before the law courts.
He can boast of having stood before 13 different magistrates and racking up 94 convictions in a life of crime that started more than 30 years ago.
Last week, he added two more convictions and one more magistrate to his card when he appeared in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court.
The 59-year-old general worker, of Bank Hall Main Road, St Michael, pleaded guilty to stealing a body spray, three chocolates and a bottle of multivitamins and Omega 3 from Flanders Pharmacy on April 8.
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An accused man who claimed he was stuck in England as a result of a lack of flights due to the COVID-19 pandemic has been warned to present himself to the No. 4 Supreme Court next month or risk having a warrant issued for his arrest.
Shane Greene, of Ashby Land, Christ Church, appeared via Zoom from England yesterday, where he said he had been having difficulties in getting a flight back to Barbados.
He had been in England since last year.
Greene, along with Akem Marvon Waithe, of Greens, St George, is jointly accused that being present together with other people on September 1, 2016, they used unlawful violence and their conduct taken together was such as would cause people present to fear for their personal safety.