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Soldier to go on trial Monday
Article by May 29, 2021
The court martial against Ordinary Seaman Raheem Reeves will now begin on Monday after his attorney-at-law, Queen’s Counsel Michael Lashley sought an adjournment.
The hearing against Reeves, who is charged with two counts of neglect to the Prejudice of Good Order and Military Discipline, was scheduled to begin at the Barbados Defence Force’s St Ann’s Fort headquarters this morning.
However, Lashley, who is representing Reeves in association with Simon Clarke and Sade Harris, submitted to the panel that he needed more time to prepare for the matter.
He informed Judge Advocate Senior Crown Counsel Krystal Delaney and the panel comprising President Major Alfred Taylor, Captain Michael Jules and Captain Patrice Cummins, that he had only been retained by his client yesterday and therefore needed the additional time to adequately prepare.
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Coulthrust, found guilty of two charges, pleads for leniency
Article by May 8, 2021
Coast Guard Private Shane Coulthrust pleaded for leniency late Friday night after a military tribunal found him guilty of two of the nine charges he faced during his court-martial.
But the sentence to be imposed was not immediately known as the three-member panel of Lieutenant Commander Fernella Cordle, Lieutenant Commander Robert Morris and Captain Randolph Clarke were locked in deliberations on Private Coulthrust’s fate at the Barbados Defence Force’s St Ann’s Fort headquarters after 11 p.m.
Earlier, after deliberating for over three hours, the panel returned at 8:03 p.m. and found the 33-year-old Coulthrust guilty of going off course without authorization and using his personal cell phone while on duty on April 19, 2019, in contravention of the Coast Guard’s Standing Orders.
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