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A witness told the Supreme Court that she saw a silver van turn off its headlights moments before she came across the body of teenager Jen-Naya Simmons. Juanae Burchall said that while she was in shock trying to help the young woman, she saw the same...

The friend of a teenager who died in a traffic collision maintained yesterday that she steered to avoid an oncoming van before she noticed that her friend was missing. Jada Simmons-Trott said that while she would not have struck the van if she had no...

A woman described yesterday how a night out turned to tragedy when her friend was killed in a road traffic collision four years ago. Jada Simmons-Trott told the Supreme Court that she was travelling in front of 19-year-old Jen-Naya Simmons with Ms Si...

A couple accused of breaking Covid-19 quarantine rules had a crowd of supporters outside their home on the day a senior health officer came to arrest them, a court heard yesterday. Armell Thomas said that he tried to have Sophia Cannonier, 52, and M...

A quadriplegic senior told police she felt “betrayed” by a lawyer accused of dishonestly taking more than $80,000 from her. In a videotaped police interview, recorded at her home two years before her death, Kirsten Badenduck told officers she had not...

A 38-year-old man admitted that he stabbed a man outside a bar in an incident on Christmas Eve. Jaha Mallory, from Southampton, pleaded guilty yesterday to a single count of wounding Tio Smith with intent to cause grievous bodily harm on December 24,...

A caregiver for a quadriplegic who was allegedly defrauded by her former lawyer told the Supreme Court a debit card was kept at the house to help pay for medical expenses. Mechelle Smith, who served as a caregiver for Kirsten Badenduck for 16 years, ...

An attorney denied yesterday that she “made up” claims that a client was hesitant to bring a complaint of theft by a former lawyer to the police out of fear of retaliation. Jacqueline MacLellan maintained in the Supreme Court that Kristen Badenduck h...

A disabled woman who allegedly lost $80,000 to her lawyer had urged police not to pursue charges out of fear of retaliation, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. Jacqueline MacLellan, the former employer of Nancy Vieira, agreed in cross examination tha...

Prosecutors accused a lawyer of unlawfully obtaining more than $80,000 from a disabled client

A man jailed for murder almost a decade ago has had his conviction quashed after the island’s final appeal court ruled that a judge gave improper directions about gunshot residue evidence. Devon Hewey was sentenced to life imprisonment in February 20...

A woman told a court yesterday that she was sexually assaulted at least four times by a tenant in her family home and that the abuse started when she was just four years old. The woman, now 35, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Supreme ...