Why are Barbadians so angry? Justice Carlisle Greaves posed this question after he dealt with a brother who confessed to killing his brother over the playing of loud music. “Why does it take such little unimportant things to trigger us to curse and abuse people, to threaten people with violence?” the judge asked. “We are so angry. For what? Over little things. Here we have a case where one is …
Rommel Akeem Cummins told a High Court on Wednesday that he only confessed to murdering Dave Archer after being beaten and tortured by police officers.In an unsworn statement which he gave from the dock of the No. 3 Supreme Court, he said he admitted to killing Archer to avoid being beaten again.Cummins, 30, of Vauxhall No. 2, Christ Church, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Archer on June 10, 2019. Archer, a former security guard on the MV DreamChaser, was gunned down while on the party vessel.Cummins alleged that lead investigator Sergeant Michael Ifill and five other police officers who he did not know by name took him into a room and tortured him to give the confession, which he eventually did on June 13, 2019.
Video footage was introduced today as the murder trial of Rommel Akeem Cummins continued in the No. 3 Supreme Court.Lead investigator Sergeant Michael Ifill returned to the witness stand and told the court he had shown the footage to Cummins while he was in police custody.Cummins, 30, of Vauxhall No. 2 Christ Church, is accused of murdering Dave Archer on June 10, 2019 while aboard the MV DreamChaser, where Archer worked as a security guard.The 12-member jury was shown video footage of Cummins being interviewed by Ifill and police constable Mervyn Sealy, as well as footage of the car park closest to the MV DreamChaser.
In one of the most high-profile murder cases adjudicated in the High Court in recent times, Hakeem Roberto Stuart was on Tuesday found guilty of the brazen, daylight killing of Damian Trotman in Sheraton Mall more than three and a half years ago.It took a 12-member jury just over three and a half hours of deliberation to find Stuart guilty, following a trial that lasted four days shy of a month and saw over 50 witnesses giving evidence.Stuart, 24, of Shelbourne Gap, St Lawrence, Christ Church, had denied murdering Trotman on March 21, 2019.Sitting in the dock of the No. 3 Supreme Court, Stuart, clad in a mustard pants, a mustard and black patterned button-down shirt and brown boat shoes, and wearing a mask as he did throughout the trial, had shown no emotion when the foreman delivered the guilty verdict.He only bowed his head as he was led away by two prison officers moments later.
Videographer Christopher Wood broke down in tears on the witness stand of the No. 3 Supreme Court yesterday as he recalled a day on the job that turned deadly. The cameraman, an employee of the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), was testifying in the murder trial of Hakeem Roberto Stuart, who is charged in the murder of Damian Trotman on March 21, 2019. Wood had been on the stand for less …