7010 results returned for search: "" category ("Court" AND "News")
A Supreme Court jury was yesterday told to find the truth in the evidence as a aggravated burglary trial came to a close.
Shaunté Simons-Fox, for the Crown, told the court yesterday that the evidence against Zywonde Lema, 20, was overwhelming – while...
DATE: Aug 23, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A man was fined $2,880 after pleading guilty in Magistrates’ Court to saying offensive words to a police officer and violently resisting arrest.
Nicole Smith, for the Crown, said on Friday that Eujonte Outerbridge, 34, of Hamilton Parish, arrived i...
DATE: Aug 23, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
A man accused of aggravated burglary told a jury that he spent the whole day with his girlfriend on the day of the alleged break-in.
Zywonde Lema, 20, told the Supreme Court yesterday that he was at the beach with his girlfriend before going to visit...
DATE: Aug 19, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A man was ordered to return to court in two months for sentencing after admitting causing grievous bodily harm.
Coleridge Hayward, 38, from Warwick, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to causing grievous bodily harm to Kirl Franks in Wa...
DATE: Aug 19, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
DNA taken from a knife found at the scene of a break-in would have been nearly impossible to fabricate or confuse, a Canadian scientist told the Supreme Court.
Stefan Salo, a forensic biologist, said that a sample swab taken from defendant, Zywonde L...
DATE: Aug 18, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
Two men were each banned from the roads for 18 months yesterday after pleading guilty to drink-driving.
Senior magistrate Maxanne Anderson heard that police stopped Ruben Amante, 63, from Pembroke, on South Road in Paget shortly after 11pm on Sunda...
DATE: Aug 18, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
A woman left her Warwick home for an hour and returned to find it ransacked, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.
Holly Murphy told the court that more than $825 worth of clothing, jewellery and other items were stolen on the morning of November 13,...
DATE: Aug 17, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Sékou Hendrickson
A legal landmark could be set by a fresh trial ordered for a man whose conviction was struck down this year after he was jailed nearly a decade ago for a gun murder.
The Court of Appeal found that a retrial for Devon Hewey, who was accused in the pre...
DATE: Aug 16, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
A 67-year-old man has been ordered to pay more than $7,000 in damages after his pitbull attacked and killed another dog.
Clifton Williams had pleaded guilty to owning a “pitbull-type dog” without a licence or permission to do so at an earlier hearing...
DATE: Aug 16, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda
A 28-year-old Sandys man was almost twice over the legal drink-driving limit when he was involved in an accident, Magistrates’ Court heard yesterday.
Nicole Smith, for the Crown, told Magistrate Craig Attridge that at about 3.45am on June 16, police...
DATE: Aug 15, 2022
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Stefano Ausenda