Portions of the phone data evidence given by a police expert witness about alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang are admissible. Chief Justice Bryan Sykes made the disclosure while assessing the expert witness’ evidence during his summation...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has been accused of an abuse of process after she indicated on Monday that her office would appeal the 51-month sentence of a St Catherine man for unauthorised gun possession under the new...
A St Catherine man who is the first person to be sentenced under the new Firearms Prohibition Act was yesterday given four years and three months in prison for possession of an illegal weapon and ammunition after pleading guilty in the Gun Court....
Crucial evidence that was led by a ballistic expert linking 11 guns that are reportedly a part of the Clansman-One Don Gang’s arsenal to several murders may not be allowed. Chief Justice Bryan Sykes signalled on Thursday during summation that there...
Although the voice attributed to the Clansman-One Don Gang’s alleged second in command featured extensively in one of the secretly recorded conversations and detailed what appeared to be information only an insider would be privy to, Chief Justice...
A last-minute effort by the lawyer representing Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks to dismiss a “conflict-of-interest” matter being pursued by former Education Minister Ruel Reid and Professor Fritz Pinnock against the judge, via judicial review,...
Commuters have been warned to brace today for the start of a three-day, all-island public transportation strike spearheaded by the One Voice Transportation Group that is expected to significantly impact mobility in Kingston and St Andrew. The...
Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan could be convicted of being the leader of a criminal organisation if Chief Justice Bryan Sykes accepts the evidence of at least one of the ex-gang members who had testified in the Clansman One-Don Gang trial. Justice Sykes,...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes signalled on Monday that evidence given by one of the former Clansman-One Don gang members about a double murder and arson incident may not be of any use to the Crown. Continuing his summation in the Home Circuit Court,...
One of the 27 defendants in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial on Friday accused the police of refusing to take him for an X-ray after allegedly injuring his arm. The defendant, Ted Prince, whose arm was in a sling, complained to Chief Justice Bryan...
The defence team representing Anthony Armstrong is contemplating challenging the decision by the Office of Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP) to transfer the fraud case against him to the Home Circuit Court. Hugh Wildman, who is leading the...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes on Thursday stated that the evidence given by a former member of the Clansman-One Don Gang about the 2017 murder of a supermarket employee in Chancery Street, St Andrew, if accepted as true, demonstrates the existence of a...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes says evidence presented in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial on counts that failed will be considered in the determination of the existence of a criminal organisation and its membership. Continuing his summation on Wednesday...
Although there was no mention of the ex-soldier and his alleged membership in the Clansman-One Don Gang in statements given by one of the prosecution’s star witnesses, Chief Justice Bryan Sykes acknowledged that the evidence suggested some truth in...
As his summation in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial began on Monday, Justice Bryan Sykes said there might be some believability to the evidence of the main witness who had volunteered information about the gang to the police, as opposed to the...
Reputed don Tesha Miller is accusing the judge who sentenced him to almost 39 years of playing a role in his "cooked-up" conviction by giving a perceived light jail term to a witness.
A serial rapist who, over a three-day period, sexually assaulted four women, including two sisters while their mother watched helplessly, was last week sentenced to 21 years in prison under a plea deal. The 35-year-old sex offender, Everton Bennett...
The family of Keith Clarke who was killed at his home during a military operation remains determined while welcoming yesterday’s Court of Appeal ruling authorising the resumption of the trial for his alleged murder. “Today’s ruling that the trial...
A security guard who was arrested last year for reportedly killing a man with a pickaxe was freed of murder in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Wednesday. Twenty-five-year-old Dwight Thomas, of Arnett Gardens in St Andrew, was slapped...
The long-awaited trial of the St Catherine labourer charged with the murder of attorney-at-law Clover Graham is scheduled to start on Thursday in the Home Circuit Court. Quron Patterson, otherwise called ‘Q’, of Gordon Pen in Spanish Town, St...
The media were barred from covering the Tuesday afternoon hearing in which one of the men arrested for the 2016 murder of two American missionaries in St Mary was expected to plead guilty to two counts of murder under a plea deal. On Monday,...
Noting that the chronic issue of juror shortage is at the worst state she has seen it in years, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn on Monday called for an examination of the process of selecting and serving jurors. She also...
The police corporal implicated in a multimillion-dollar cooking oil theft was on Monday denied bail when he appeared in the St Catherine Parish Court. Detective Corporal Maurice Whittingham, 35, who is charged with robbery with aggravation and...
While industrial action initially considered to coincide with Monday’s opening of the Circuit Court’s Hillary Term across the island appears to have been averted, the legal officers remain restive over the public sector compensation restructuring...
