For stealing from and laundering money belonging to his clients, attorney Ernest Winston Jackman received a 7-year term. However, after subtracting the 214 days spent in remand, he will only spend 6 years, 151 days at Dodds Prison. The theft of $678 414.75 from HEJ Ltd between June 23, 2006, and March 5, 2007, was
Disgraced attorney-at-law Ernest Winston Jackman, who a High Court judge said had “significantly” breached the trust between himself and a former client he stole over half a million dollars from, will spend the next six years in prison.The sentence was imposed by Madame Justice Pamela Beckles on the 67-year-old for theft as well as money laundering after his promise to repay the money by Wednesday did not materialise.When Jackman last appeared before the judge in the No. 5 Supreme Court earlier this month, his sentencing was delayed by two weeks, at his request, to allow him time to repay the over $286 000 still owed to John Huggins.However, when asked if the funds had been paid, Huggins’ attorney Alrick Scott, KC, told the court his client had received none of the outstanding money.Jackman was in May this year found guilty of stealing $678 414.75 from HEJ Limited, of which Huggins was the principal shareholder and managing director, between June 23, 2006, and March 5, 2007. He w
Attorney Ernest Winston Jackman has been sentenced to six years, and 151 days in jail for stealing his clients’ money. Jackman, of Wiltshire Plantation House, St Philip, had denied stealing $678 414.75 belonging to HEJ Ltd, between June 23, 2006, and March 5, 2007. He had also pleaded not guilty to engaging in money laundering in that he disposed of sums totaling $678 414.75, being the proceeds of crime. When …