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From The Courts

Cop: Accused said he believed victim was high

Accused Dario Orlando Taitt told police he believed Jamal Clarke was “high” based on the way he was behaving and quarrelling over a cellphone. However, he denied that he shot...
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Fondler ordered to pay $8 500

Four years ago, he fondled a 12-year-old girl’s breast and last week, Christopher O’Brien Harris was sentenced for...
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‘DPP cannot be included’

The State has filed an appeal against a High Court decision that quashed a magistrate’s order sending former...
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Black Rock man charged with ammunition possession

Update Trumanni Mecha Cadogan-Ashby, 28, of Simmons Land, Fairfield, Black Rock, St Michael, has been charged with possession of...
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Two remanded on $1 million cannabis charges

Two St Michael men have been remanded to Dodds Prison after being charged with cannabis offences involving 52.4...
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Gunman gets life for murder

Heather-Lynn Evanson -
Any person who uses a firearm to commit murder can expect a long sentence, including life in prison, declared Justice Carlisle Greaves. However, he will...
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Six years for ‘visiting evil’

Heather-Lynn Evanson -
The man who admitted he “visited evil” on his stepdaughter when he buggered her more than 20 years ago was given a starting sentence...
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Lawyer who stole $850 000 to be sentenced July 16

Heather-Lynn Evanson -
Attorney Hilary Jeffrey Nelson will be sentenced on July 16 for stealing more than $850 000 from a client seven years ago. The long-standing attorney...
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Two charged after cannabis seizure valued at $1.76 million

Nationnews Desk -
The Barbados Police Service Narcotics Unit has charged two people following the seizure of more than 110 kilograms of suspected cannabis. Police said Arshad Patel,...
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Sex offender given 15-year sentence

Heather-Lynn Evanson -
Fifteen years. That’s the starting sentence Matthew Orlando King got for having sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old girl ten years ago. Saying that she believed King...
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Judge slams prison authorities over late bus arrival

Heather-Lynn Evanson -
A Hight Court judge has called out prison authorities as she declared courts have been made to wait from ten minutes to an hour...
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