Page 23 - Grant Connell News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Lawyers call for larger, more diversified jury pool Left to Right: Grant Connell & Jomo Thomas Social Share The jury pool needs to be made larger and more diversified. Speaking on Monday, December 21, on the occasion of the close of the High Court assizes, counsel Grant Connell was the first of two present from the defence bar, to mention this. Connell signified that there were a few issues he wished to touch on, the first of which was the jury. “Thank the jury, it’s hard work,” he first noted. However, he believes some adjustments need to be made to the legislation that sp...

Kirth Stapleton (left) and Kyron Bowens must serve lengthy sentences for armed robbery Social Share For their armed robberies of several individuals in different establishments, as well as the gratuitous shooting of a victim; one young man must serve 18, and the other, 23 years, in prison. Kirth Stapleton of New Montrose/Edinboro, and Kyron Bowens of Ottley Hall, were each sentenced at the High Court last Friday, December 18. They faced four counts of robbery, one count of wounding with intent, possession of a firearm with intent to commit an offence, and unlawful use of a firear...

Lawyers unhappy with Sentencing Guidelines Left to Right: JUSTICE BRIAN COTTLE , GRANT CONNELL, JOMO THOMAS & KAY BACCHUS BAPTISTE Social Share by Katherine Renton Some defence lawyers are expressing concerns in relation to recent sentencing guidelines put together by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) for judges to follow when sentencing offenders. “I have a serious concern and I think I’m going to have to express it to the Chief Justice [Dame Janice Pereira of the ESCS], with these guidelines that they have sent for judges to follow,” veteran counsel Kay Bacchus-B...

Man to serve 31 years in prison for ‘revenge’ murder of Bishop Killer Anwar Jack (left), leaves the High Court with a police officer Tuesday after being sentenced to 31 years in prison for the killing of Spiritual Baptist bishop Ian Enoch. Social Share A 26-year-old male who elaborately planned out the chopping murder of a bishop because the said bishop allegedly drugged, raped and manipulated him; must now serve a 31-year prison sentence. Spiritual Baptist bishop Ian Enoch Anwar Jack, a security guard from Georgetown, in a complete confession to the police hours after the mu...

Primus escapes amidst related trial The ongoing trial of Louis Cupid, charged in connection with Veron Primus’ first escape, has revealed some still unanswered questions about which persons are now speculating. By: Haydn Huggins• Murder accused Veron Primus’, who made good an escape, albeit temporary, from Her Majesty’s Prisons, Kingstown, 14 months ago, made a second bid for freedom, this time, along with another inmate, Ulric Hanson, of Mayreau, who is also awaiting trial for murder. The two were found missing from their cells on the morning of December 9. The escape came amidst th...