A Jamaican man caught trying to leave Cayman on a murdered man’s passport, after overstaying more than 10 years, will have to wait until November to learn his fate.
Appearing before Magistrate Kirsty-Ann Gunn on Tuesday, 27 Sept., Dennis Augustus Ramsay listened in silence as his attorney Dennis Brady asked the judge to impose the “sentence most favourable for him”.
Ramsay, a father of seven, is said to have no ties to Cayman.
He entered guilty pleas on 19 May to one count of overstaying and one count of possessing an altered travel document. This was three days after he was arrested at Owen Roberts International Airport by Customs and Border Control officials while attempting to board a flight to Honduras using a passport belonging to Dougmore Wright, who was shot dead in March 2018.
A court-imposed reporting restriction prohibits the Cayman Compass from publishing details of Ramsay’s hearing, save for the fact that it happened, and he is due to return to court on 7 Nov. for his sentencing.
Gunn did not sentence Ramsay on Tuesday as the magistrate said she needed additional time to contemplate her ruling on all the matters presented to her, and to produce a written ruling.
Background to the case
Ramsay is not thought to have been connected with Wright’s death and is said to have come by the murdered man’s passport by paying an unknown man $3,000.
“The defendant said he paid $3,000 for the passport,” Gilles said during a previous hearing. “The document appears to have been in his possession for an extended period of time, having paid for it in instalments.”
On the charge of overstaying, he faces a fine of up to $20,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.
After the hearing, Ramsay was remanded back into custody.
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