Lawyers in the case of convicted attorney-at-law Norman Leroy Lynch made submissions on sentencing before the High Court on Friday, with the defence counsel indicating the disgraced lawyer was in no position to repay the money he stole.When the convicted thief’s case was called before the No. 2 Supreme Court, Justice Randall Worrell asked Acting Senior State Counsel Romario Straker and Lynch’s attorney Marlon Gordon to address him on the issue of compensation and delay.Lynch has been on remand at Dodds Prison since May 2022 after being found guilty of stealing $50 000 belonging to the estate of Arthur O’Neal Thomas between August 18, 2005, and December 21, 2008.He was also convicted of stealing $407 634, the proceeds of a FirstCaribbean International Bank cheque made payable to Leroy Lynch and belonging to Thomas’ estate, between June 22, 2007, and December 21, 2008; as well as money laundering in the disposal of $457 634, being the proceeds of crime, alsobetween June 22, 2007,
Attorney-at-law Norman Leroy Lynch will spend another five years in prison for swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the beneficiaries of a deceased client.Declaring that such behaviour must not go unpunished, Justice Randall Worrell imposed a nine-year starting prison sentence on the lawyer who was convicted of theft and money laundering a year ago. However, with the time Lynch spent on remand and other factors taken into consideration, he only has five more years of that sentence to serve at Dodds Prison.“This court is of the opinion that type of conduct in this matter must be frowned upon and any sentence should also be construed as . . . a measure of protection to the public from these types of matters,” Justice Worrell said as the convicted thief, clad in a dark blue dress shirt and black slacks, stood emotionless in the dock of the No. 2 Supreme Court.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) A High Court judge in Barbados has sentenced a lawyer to five years in jail for stealing nearly BDS$500,000 (J$38 million) from the beneficiaries of a deceased client.
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Attorney-at-law Norman Leroy Lynch’s theft of thousands of dollars belonging to the estate of Arthur O’Neal Thomas has left that family stressed and depressed.
Hortensia Ward nee Thomas, the daughter of the deceased, gave that description of the impact the situation has had on her family, on Monday, in the sentencing phase of Lynch’s case before Justice Randall Worrell in the
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