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Man to serve 4 years, 9 months for killing man wit hatchet in 2007 Friday 30 April 2021 The Court of Appeal has substituted a verdict of manslaughter for a man convicted of killing another man with a hatchet in 2007. The judges allowed his appeal and quashed Vishnu Beharry's conviction. Selivering their decision at a virtual hearing on Thursday, Justices of Appeal Alice Yorke-Soo Hon, Gillian Lucky and Malcolm Holdip said it was a fitting case to substitute the conviction of manslaughter, since the judge erred and he was deprived of the opportunity to have the jury consider the lesser charge....

Watson Duke fined $1,200 for pulling fire alarm at 2017 Arima protest Watson Duke - Public Services Association (PSA) president and leader of the Progressive Democratic Patriots (PDP) Watson Duke was fined $1,200 on Thursday for an incident involving a fire alarm at the Arima Borough Corporation in 2017. Magistrate Avion Gill gave Duke a month to pay the fine – the maximum penalty under the Fire Services Act – but did not impose the three-month prison term because of his previous good character. Last month, Duke was found guilty of making or causing a false report to be made to fire of...

Convicted rapist loses appeal over 2006 rape Wednesday 21 April 2021 A 39-year-old man who was sentenced to a little over 11 years in prison for raping a 14-year-old girl over 15 years ago has lost his appeal. In an oral decision on Tuesday, Justices of Appeal Alice Yorke-Soo Hon, Mark Mohammed, and Maria Wilson, during a virtual hearing, dismissed all the grounds of appeal advanced by Peter Andrew Davis, who complained that the judge who presided over his trial made several errors which led to his conviction. Wilson, who delivered the ruling, went through each of the grounds of complaint, di...

After being freed, Morvant man to face trial again for WASA fete murder Friday 26 February 2021 ALMOST three years after he was freed by a High Court judge who upheld an application challenging the reliability of the evidence in the case, a 41-year-old Morvant man will be re-indicted for the murder of a man after a WASA fete in 2009. Frankie Bartholomew, of Second Caledonia, was freed of murdering Marcus Mark on March 7, 2018. On Friday, Justices of Appeal Alice Yorke-Soo Hon, Maria Wilson and Malcolm Holdip gave their decision in an appeal by the prosecution against Justice Lisa Ramsumair-Hi...

Amy Annamunthodo killer appeals conviction Thursday 21 January 2021 CONVICTED child-killer Marlon King has asked the Court of Appeal to find fault with his trial judge’s handling of his case in 2012. He was sentenced to hang for the brutal murder of his four-year-old stepdaughter Amy Emily Annamunthodo. Annamunthodo was tortured and beaten to death, burned with cigarettes, hung from her hair and beaten until her heart ruptured. King was charged with killing the child – who weighed 33 pounds and was unable to speak properly and under-developed – on May 15, 2006 at his home at Ste Madelei...