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A Jamaican prisoner who claimed his constitutional rights were infringed because he was not allowed to apply for parole after serving a third of his sentence has won a landmark victory in the Supreme Court. Leighton Griffiths was convicted in 2007 of...

A water trucker was sentenced to 3½ years behind bars yesterday for stashing more than $200,000 of cannabis in his home. Clienty Butterfield, a 36-year-old father of six, pleaded guilty earlier this year to two charges of possessing cannabis with int...

A mother of four who plundered nearly $100,000 from a drugs money stash has been jailed. Laurell Steede, of Pembroke, overheard two drug dealers talking about where they had hidden their money and then stole the cash herself. Steede used the funds to...

The man accused of opening fire outside Somerset Cricket Club injuring four men has been cleared of all charges. It took a jury just 50 minutes this afternoon to find Princeton Shantoine Burrows not guilty of shooting at the men with intent to cause ...

A man accused of shooting four men outside Somerset Cricket Club has chosen not to take the stand. Princeton Shantoine Burrows, 24, denies firing at the men with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, along with charges of possessing a firearm and fiv...

The trial of a man charged with opening fire on a group of people last year continued yesterday with the court hearing details about his actions before the shooting. Princeton Burrows denies shooting four men outside Somerset Cricket Club on November...

A man shot while socialising with friends at Somerset Cricket Club yesterday told of seeing the spark of a gun before being hit. The man, who cannot be identified due to a court order, went with the Somerset Trojans football team to the National Spor...

The trial of a man accused of shooting four people outside of the Somerset Cricket Club began yesterday in the Supreme Court. Princeton Shantoine Burrows, 24, denies firing at four men with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, along with charges of ...

A teenager has admitted wounding Pan American Games athlete Shaquille Dill. Quaashie Douglas, 16, had been charged with wounding Mr Dill with intent to cause him grievous bodily harm. At the Supreme Court yesterday, Douglas denied that offence but p...

A Paget woman this morning denied stealing more than $400,000 from a dentist’s surgery during an appearance in Supreme Court. Devore Brangman, 53, pleaded not guilty to 12 counts of stealing credit balances between 2007 and 2011. In each of the charg...

Double murderer Wolda Gardner will have to wait until he is 79 before he can be considered for release by the parole board. Gardner, 35, broke down in tears yesterday as he was jailed for life for the premeditated murder of Malcolm Augustus in the ea...

A man involved in a botched armed robbery that resulted in a suspect being shot has been sentenced to more than two years behind bars. Umdae Woolridge, 25, pleaded guilty earlier this year to a single charge of burglary in connection to an incident o...