The bank teller who flattened a pensioner’s account, his accomplice who put a hit out on the woman, as well as the former drug addict who was enlisted to shoot her, were all jailed when they reappeared in the No. 4 Supreme Court yesterday. However, Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell has urged lawmakers to relook the Penal System Reform Act to allow for suspended sentences for firearm offences “in very special circumstances”. …
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A High Court judge believes it is time for “reconsideration of the law” related to dogs in Barbados, as he imposed a suspended sentence on a man whose pit bulls mauled to death an elderly woman five and a half years ago.Justice Christopher Birch said on Friday that while it is not for the court to rule on the inherent or potential dangers of any specific breed of dog, Peter Christopher Rock’s case “has shown that there exists a need to clarify the law relating to the treatment, care, and restrictions to be imposed upon dogs, and liability arising therefrom”.Rock, of Monroe Rad, Haggatt Hall, St Michael, had pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of 74-year-old Verona Gibson, taking responsibility for his dogs escaping and attacking the senior citizen around 5:20 a.m. on January 28, 2017.
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