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It will be a trial for gun accused Kyle Tito Wesley Lovell. This comes after the 27-year-old pleaded guilty to gun and ammunition possession yesterday, but later took issue with the written statement in his matters, saying he did not freely give it. Lovell, of St Stephen’s Hill Landing Scheme, St Michael, was in the No. 5A Supreme Court where he was arraigned with having a .22 Magnum calibre revolver …
Convicted killer to challenge sentence in October
Article by June 9, 2021
Convicted killer Terry Cassius Seale will appear before the Barbados Court of Appeal in four months’ time to challenge his 18-year prison sentence.
Seale, of Groves Crescent, St George, was sentenced to that time in jail back in December 2018, for killing his former lover, Moreta Forde.
His appeal reached the case management stage today when it was called before Justices of Appeal Francis Belle, Margaret Reifer and Jefferson Cumberbatch.
Appearing before the court during a virtual sitting this morning, attorney-at-law Dennis Headley informed the panel of Appeal Judges that Seale had agreed for him to continue as his defence counsel in the matter. The lawyer also said he had received the formal go-ahead from Community Legal Services to appear on the appellant’s behalf and was now in possession of the record of the 2018 proceedings in Seale’s case.
Being raped spiralled her into bipolar depression, suicide attempts and acts of self-harm, a victim said yesterday. However, said the girl, her psychiatrist avoided placing her on medication because she had also tried to overdose on drugs. The complainant was giving her victim impact statement when a St Peter man reappeared in the No. 4 Supreme Court. He had pleaded guilty last month to having unlawful sexual intercourse with the …
Men may be ‘in debt to their own’ for illegal weapons
Article by April 22, 2021
Two Christ Church men who pleaded guilty before the High Court to firearm and ammunition charges will know their fate on Friday .
And Justice Randall Worrell has made clear that should the No. 2 Supreme Court decide that the imposition of a fine would meet justice in their cases then the two must be ready to repay family members and friends who will be stepping in to help them.
“If the court is going to indicate that this is a fine, whatever fine the court is going to impose, you all are going to have to work to pay this back to your relatives who have decided to assist you all,” Justice Worrell told Adeem Antone Millington, of Ashby Land, Oistins and Dario David Cox, of Lodge Road during a virtual sitting on Wednesday.