A plea is being made to people involved with illegal firearms, or contemplating doing so, to think not only about their intended victims but also “the innocent ones”.
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The appeal has come from Justice Carlisle Greaves as he addressed a courtroom yesterday filled with tearful family and friends of two men and a woman sent to jail for importing guns.
Colin Alfonso Wooding, of No. 14 Graeme Hall Terrace, Christ Church; Akem Marvon Waithe, of Greens, St George, and Skye Yasmin Lucreta Murray, of Perry Gap, Roebuck Street, St Michael, were found guilty last September in Supreme Court No. 3 of conspiring together with others to import five firearms sometime between November 1, 2016, and December 15, 2016.
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The weapons were two Smith & Wesson pistols, one Taurus, a Sturm Rugur pistol and a Glock pistol.
They were also convicted of conspiring to possess the five firearms during that same period. Murray faced two additional charges of possession and importation of the disassembled guns on November 1, 2016.
The items were discovered inside bags of flour and sugar in a barrel by a customs officer at the Bridgetown Port.
“The lesson out of all of this, to all you people out there – whether young, not so young, old, whatever – is whenever the thought enters your mind about dealing with illegal firearms . . . think not only about those you’re directly hurting or intend to directly hurt, but about the innocent ones,” Justice Greaves said. (SD)
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