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
Irishman John Binghan testified on Tuesday that his friendly attempt to speak to a man who was “pacing up and down and staring at him” ended with his friend Brian Mulligan being fatally stabbed eight and a half years ago.That was the evidence Binghan gave in the No. 4 Supreme Court as the murder trial of Michael Oneal Beckles got underway before Madame Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell.Mulligan, a British national, was allegedly murdered on June 15, 2014, by Beckles who was 54 at the time.Binghan, who lives in Dublin, Ireland, gave evidence via Zoom.Under questioning from Principal State Counsel Krystal Delaney, he told the court that he and Mulligan were in Barbados having been contracted to work for telecommunications company LIME.
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 …
Attorneys involved in the case of convicted lawyer Ernest Winston Jackman will next month make submissions on what sentence they believe the court should impose.Jackman, who is from St Philip, has been on remand at Dodds prison since May 31 pending sentencing following his conviction by jury for stealing and using over half a million dollars of a client’s money.
The Court of Appeal has reserved its decision in a three-way matter involving two brothers from Bequest, St Philip.Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham, Justices of Appeal Rajendra Narine and Francine Belle today heard from Principal State Counsel Krystal Delaney who along with Director of Public Prosecutions Donna Babb-Agard Q.C. have requested a review of the sentences imposed on the killers on the basis that they are “unduly lenient”.The panel also heard from attorney for Stuart Kenny MacMillian Harewood, Michael Lashley Q.C. and defense counsel Safiya Moore who is representing Scott Colby Richardson Harewood. The two have appealed their sentences on the grounds that they were “excessive”.Stuart was sentenced to 35 years in prison and his brother Scott to 38 years behind bars for non-capital murder in the shooting death of Derek Hunte on June 3, 2014.