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Three 21-year-old men begin six year prison sentences today for the "night of craziness'' which led to the attack on longtime taxi driver Warrington (Soup) Zuill.
Ricardo Alexander Denbrook and brothers Howard Austin Sinclair Mello and Andrew Leroy H...
DATE: Nov 01, 2000
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A "time bomb'' was jailed for 25 years yesterday after he admitted the rape and sodomy of an elderly woman out of revenge for pressing charges against him four years ago.
Heman Ledrew Viera stood quietly, the muscles in his temples flexing after Puis...
DATE: Oct 31, 2000
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With his daughter seeing a psychiatrist for mutilating herself and his marriage over, a Warwick man was imprisoned for ten years for her sexual exploitation yesterday.
The man -- who cannot be named for legal reasons -- sobbed quietly as his crime wa...
DATE: Oct 31, 2000
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A crack cocaine addict eloquently apologised for a series of break-ins yesterday before he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison by the Chief Justice, Austin Ward.
Clarence Nicole Simmons pleaded guilty to more than 20 counts relating to f...
DATE: Oct 31, 2000
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A coroner has ruled that cyclist Stephen Leroy Dill died in September 1999 in a single-vehicle accident "while very much under the influence of alcohol''.
And Coroner Will Francis explained to Mr. Dill's sister, Katherine Landy, that while she may ha...
DATE: Oct 30, 2000
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plans to reform sentencing options for criminals while introducing a seat-belt law.
Also in the works are the long promised amalgamation of the lower courts and Hamilton Police Station into one building and a change in Police oversight laws.
Governme...
DATE: Oct 28, 2000
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Six months into Archibald Warner's tenure as Senior Magistrate, the amount of money owed to the courts has been cut in half to just over $1 million.
Mr. Warner welcomed statistics obtained by The Royal Gazette showing that in the first six months of ...
DATE: Oct 26, 2000
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are really stretching me'' before he ordered that his driving licence be "cancelled''.
"Don't bother going down to TCD (Transport Control Department),'' Mr. King told Jevon Reid Daniels yesterday. "You can't drive or ride for three years.
"Then you'l...
DATE: Oct 24, 2000
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Magistrate Edward King hung "the sword of Damocles'' over a crack addict's head yesterday in handing down a suspended sentence for stealing from a church.
Mr. King referred to the Greek myth of a man awaiting execution when sentencing Norris Albert S...
DATE: Oct 24, 2000
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A Jamaican man will be tried in January for the razor attack of another man at the Devonshire Recreation Club on Friday night.
Clinton Elias Mattocks, 29, of Happy Valley Lane, Pembroke pleaded not guilty to slashing Lincoln George Brown on October 2...
DATE: Oct 24, 2000
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