Topic: Amelia Fosuhene

Legal heavyweights have examined a lawyer's plea to give defendants in sex assault cases the same right to anonymity as victims.

Trial on Oct. 31 has been confirmed for three men charged with motor racing on roads.

A man charged with wounding another man by stabbing and common assault relating to two women was granted bail on Thursday after Crown counsel Kenneth Ferguson raised no objections.

Anastasia Watson, sentenced in February to 12 months’ imprisonment for causing death by careless driving, was granted a three-month reduction in her sentence in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.

In 2017, when nearly 6,800 criminal and traffic offenses were registered with the court, 245 offenses (a ratio of about 3.6 percent) were disposed of in the Summary Courts by way of “no conviction recorded.”

A six-member jury returned three verdicts on Tuesday, finding Marlon Ricardo Porter guilty of rape, assault causing actual bodily harm and causing intentional harassment, alarm and distress.

Nicholas Patrick Tibbetts, who completed a prison sentence for causing death by careless driving, received an absolute discharge on Tuesday for the related offense of leaving the scene of an accident. Immigration officer Tibbetts, 26, appeared in Traffic Court before Magistrate Adam Roberts.

Two men accused of assaulting police and threatening to kill them were granted conditional bail when they appeared in Summary Court on Thursday morning. Aaron Kenroy Dwain Solomon, 31, and Jaron Calvin Solomon, 28, were charged in connection with an incident at an East End residence on Monday, Feb. 6.

The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that the law on “joint enterprise” – which allows someone to be convicted of murder even if they did not strike the fatal blow – has been wrongly interpreted for more than three decades.