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Ricardo Ervin Goddard was given a starting sentence of seven years in prison for an illegal gun by the No. 5 Supreme Court. However, he will serve a remaining 465 days after deductions. Goddard, of Melrose, St Thomas, had pleaded guilty, earlier in the Session of the Continuous Sittings, to having a 4.55 BB-calibre pistol in his possession on February 5, 2021. He was represented by attorney Matthew Willoughby, while …
“It’s like you did not learn.” With these words, Justice Christopher Birch sentenced Don Sylvester Browne to 12 years in prison for his third illegal firearm when he appeared in the No. 5A Supreme Court yesterday. Browne, of Golden Ridge Village, St George, was back in court after he had pleaded guilty earlier in the Session of the Continuous Sittings to having a .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol and seven rounds …
His “excellent” pre-sentencing report was one of the reasons why first-time offender Tristan Kemar Scott was given a fine when he appeared in the No. 5 Supreme Court yesterday. Scott, now 25, but then 19, of Military Road, Bush Hall, St Michael, had pleaded guilty at an earlier Session of the Continuous Sittings to having a 9mm semi-automatic pistol and six rounds of 9mm ammunition on February 23, 2017. He …
The man who killed two of his girlfriends, stabbing the last one 24 times, and who was described by his father as “demon possessed” was sentenced to the rest of his natural life behind bars yesterday. The whole life sentence was imposed on Patrick Nathanial Leacock by Justice Pamela Beckles when he reappeared in the No. 5 Supreme Court yesterday. “Your attack was brutal. It was an overkill, as described …
Try as he might, said Justice Randall Worrell, he could find no mitigating features in Stephen Orlando Archer’s murder case. And that was why, said the judge, he was sentencing Archer to a starting sentence of 40 years in prison. “The court clearly finds that the threshold for a custodial sentence has been met; the planning, the premeditation to rob; the use of a firearm even though you were not …