The 10-year prison sentence given to one of the robbers who targeted the Russell’s Cineplex in 2013 has been reduced by two years at the Court of Appeal. Nine years ago five persons hatched a plan to rob the employees of the Cineplex at gunpoint. Two of the men carried out the robbery, and they were successful in beating up employees and taking thousands of dollars in cash. They fled …
By Latrishka Thomas Latrishka.thomas@antiguaobserver.com The former Cabinet ministers who were acquitted of corruption, embezzlement and conversion charges in relation to three buses they acquired in 2008 are seeking to have an appeal against the ruling struck out by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC). The case centred on three Daewoo…
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The Court of Appeal has advised a man convicted of beating up another prisoner while in prison that he should focus his energy on more positive activities while in prison. “If you continue with your good behaviour, I am sure they will recommend you for early release,” Justice of Appeal Gertel Thom told prisoner Damien Bristol, who appealed for the court to allow his most recent sentence of nine months …
At the Court of Appeal(COA) on Monday a man from Campden Park sought to have his case adjourned because of tight shoes. Maurice Cupid told Justices of Appeal Louise Esther Blenman, Gertel Thom, and Margaret Price-Findlay that he wanted to ask for an adjournment “please”, because his shoes were burning him a lot and squeezing his feet. The Justices of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC), who are …