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Man to be sentenced on Wednesday
Article by June 4, 2021
Convicted man Neco Ramone Johnson today apologized to a female passenger who was injured when he and two other men threw rocks at a minivan over eight years ago.
The woman was one of three people hurt during the incident which led to charges of violent disorder, criminal damage and three counts of unlawful and malicious wounding being levelled against Johnson, of Watts Village, St George.
He previously pleaded guilty to the November 7, 2012 charges.
The woman told the No. 2 Supreme Court today that she was pregnant at the time with her now eight-year-old daughter and was on the bus which services the Bayfield, St Philip route. She disclosed that when the vehicle got to the South District, St George area “some guys” got out without paying.
Child tells court how she was assaulted by neighbour
Article by June 4, 2021
A minor has told a judge and jury that it took several years before she was able to tell someone that she had been indecently assaulted by a male neighbour.
The girl, now in her teens, was “seven or eight” years old at the time of the alleged incident. St Lucy resident Walter Vernon Boucher is accused of committing the act sometime between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2016.
The 69-year-old accused is now on trial before a nine-member jury, presided over by Justice Randall Worrell.
When the child took the witness stand she told the No. 2 Supreme Court that she and her brother were in the habit of going over to Boucher’s house as his wife used to babysit them.
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A HIGH COURT JUDGE has once again expressed amazement at the apparent ease with which young men find firearms. In fact, said Justice Randall Worrell, they even seem to find them complete with bullets. “I don’t understand all of these young people finding guns,” he said yesterday. “You can’t even find a $100 bill and they not only finding guns, but they finding guns and they finding a magazine that …