King’s Counsel Valerie Neita-Robertson, who is representing the convicted ex-juror who tried to bribe the jury foreman in the Vybz Kartel murder trial, is of the view that the evidence used to convict her client was unreliable and she would be...
Less than a month before the September 2021 start of what was touted as the largest gang trial in the English-speaking Caribbean, one of the prosecution’s star witnesses had bought his ticket to Jamaica and was ready to abandon the case. Troubled...
While hailing the conviction of 15 members of the Clansman-One Don Gang as a win for Jamaica, Director of Public Prosecutions Paula Llewellyn lauded the two ex-gangsters for putting Jamaica first by helping the State to put the hoodlums behind...
After spending the last four years and four months in custody on allegations that he was a member of the Clansman-One Don Gang and the don of Waterloo, Pete Miller was all smiles as he sauntered from the Home Circuit Court on Tuesday after...
Twenty-five of the remaining alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang are to know today whether they will be convicted of being a part of a criminal organisation. Reputed leader of the St Catherine-based gang, Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan, will also...
Family members of 73-year-old Mabel Lawrence, who was killed after she was hit by a car on Saturday outside her home in St Thomas, have been left fuming over the manner in which they were robbed of her presence. The bubbly social butterfly and...
Two men implicated in last June’s murder of a Kingston salesman who was reportedly shot and robbed of his motorcar in St Mary, by three men who he had taken to the parish, were freed of murder and gun charges in the St Mary Parish Court. Nicholas...
A brag about pumping eight shots into a man who was ordered killed by the Clansman-One Don Gang led to the conviction one alleged gangster on Thursday when the judge, in finding him guilty of facilitating the murder, accepted his boastful admission...
The defence by an alleged Clansman-One Don gang member that there were multiple entrances to a furniture shop occupied by him, where an illegal rifle was found in 2019, was on Wednesday dismissed as “absolute rubbish” by the presiding judge....
The prosecution in the Clansman-One Don Gang trial was on Tuesday dealt yet another blow after its case against one of the remaining 27 defendants not only collapsed, but it failed to prove that the gang was responsible for the 2017 double murder...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes indicated on Monday that based on the evidence presented by a former member of the Clansman-One Don Gang, he has found that a criminal organisation existed and it was led by Andre ‘Blackman’ Bryan. The judge further said...
A Jamaican woman, recently convicted of human trafficking charges with her husband who is from India, was convinced that an Indian worker recruited by her husband had attempted suicide because his salary was sent back to his family. Having bought...
Chief Justice Bryan Sykes on Thursday acknowledged that being in the State’s custody is one of the best possible alibis that the alleged Clansman-One Done gang members could have. Justice Sykes made the observation while reviewing the defence for...
Justice Vinette Graham-Allen is to rule on March 6 whether a preliminary hearing to determine the validity of the good faith certificates in the Keith Clarke matter is to be conducted independently of the murder trial which may follow. During a...
In an unprecedented move, the Supreme Court recently sanctioned chemotherapy and surgery for a young kidney cancer patient after his mother refused to give permission for the medical intervention, claiming that God would heal the child. Doctors at...
Ballistic evidence presented during the Clansman-One Don Gang trial has failed to establish any link between the gang’s “system guns” and any of the 10 murders reportedly carried out by its alleged members. A ballistic expert had testified that a...
The sentencing hearing for a Kingston businesswoman who was last December convicted for the 2019 stabbing death of her ex-boyfriend failed to get under way on Monday after the woman insisted that she no longer wanted her attorney to represent her...
Portions of the phone data evidence given by a police expert witness about alleged members of the Clansman-One Don Gang are admissible. Chief Justice Bryan Sykes made the disclosure while assessing the expert witness’ evidence during his summation...
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn has been accused of an abuse of process after she indicated on Monday that her office would appeal the 51-month sentence of a St Catherine man for unauthorised gun possession under the new...
A St Catherine man who is the first person to be sentenced under the new Firearms Prohibition Act was yesterday given four years and three months in prison for possession of an illegal weapon and ammunition after pleading guilty in the Gun Court....
Crucial evidence that was led by a ballistic expert linking 11 guns that are reportedly a part of the Clansman-One Don Gang’s arsenal to several murders may not be allowed. Chief Justice Bryan Sykes signalled on Thursday during summation that there...
Although the voice attributed to the Clansman-One Don Gang’s alleged second in command featured extensively in one of the secretly recorded conversations and detailed what appeared to be information only an insider would be privy to, Chief Justice...
A last-minute effort by the lawyer representing Chief Parish Judge Chester Crooks to dismiss a “conflict-of-interest” matter being pursued by former Education Minister Ruel Reid and Professor Fritz Pinnock against the judge, via judicial review,...
