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For stealing from and laundering money belonging to his clients, attorney Ernest Winston Jackman received a 7-year term. However, after subtracting the 214 days spent in remand, he will only spend 6 years, 151 days at Dodds Prison. The theft of $678 414.75 from HEJ Ltd between June 23, 2006, and March 5, 2007, was
Attorney Ernest Winston Jackman has been sentenced to six years, and 151 days in jail for stealing his clients’ money. Jackman, of Wiltshire Plantation House, St Philip, had denied stealing $678 414.75 belonging to HEJ Ltd, between June 23, 2006, and March 5, 2007. He had also pleaded not guilty to engaging in money laundering in that he disposed of sums totaling $678 414.75, being the proceeds of crime. When …
The Acting Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) has asked the High Court to impose a stiff sentence on convicted attorney Ernest Winston Jackman despite submissions by his lawyer for him to be given a suspended sentence and his own plea for leniency.In May this year a jury found Jackman guilty of stealing $678 414.75 from HEJ Limited between June 23, 2006 and March 5, 2007. The 67-year-old was also convicted of engaging in money laundering by disposing of the sum between June 23, 2006 and October 18, 2011.Acting DPP Krystal Delaney submitted that a starting sentence, of between eight and nine ...
Attorneys involved in the case of convicted lawyer Ernest Winston Jackman will next month make submissions on what sentence they believe the court should impose.Jackman, who is from St Philip, has been on remand at Dodds prison since May 31 pending sentencing following his conviction by jury for stealing and using over half a million dollars of a client’s money.