Topic: manslaughter

The Law Reform Commission is reviewing a legal principal that prevents a person who has killed another from benefiting financially from the victim's death.

A man has been cleared of manslaughter after the Court of Appeal ruled that a jury had been misdirected by a judge

Former Health Services Authority surgeon Dr. Paul Anthony Taiganides will appear before the Grand Court to be tried for manslaughter next May.

Former Health Services Authority physician Dr. Paul Anthony Taiganides, 61, appeared in Summary Court Tuesday charged with manslaughter in relation to the death of gunshot wound victim Travis Ebanks.

A Bodden Town man who shot and killed his friend over a $175 debt has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for the 2022 broad daylight killing.

The men responsible for the shooting death of a retired prison officer, who was killed during a botched robbery of an illegal gambling den, have been jailed for their respective roles.

A Grand Court judge has indicated that if Javon James Dixon helps authorities locate a silver handgun that was used to kill Jovin Omar Fuentes, the court would be minded to offer a reduction when handing down its sentence next month.

The shooting death of retired prison officer Harry Elliott Jr., was such a devastating blow to his family that it sent his father to an early grave, a court heard on Wednesday.

Javon James Dixon has been convicted of killing his friend, Jovin Omar Fuentes, over a $175 debt that the victim is said to have owed Dixon's girlfriend.

Sean Michael McDonald, who is serving a seven-year sentence for a boat collision that claimed the lives of two people, has now been charged with smuggling ganja into Northward Prison.

Former boat captain Sean Michael McDonald has been sentenced to seven years and one month in jail for a 2019 boating accident that claimed the lives of two people and injured another.

Prosecutors are calling for a prison sentence of up to 12 years for Sean Michael McDonald, who killed two people and injured another after his boat collided with their vessel as both boats returned from a Sunday outing at Rum Point in 2019.

Jeremy Parchman and Shimar Kelly have both been convicted of manslaughter in the 2019 death of Sri Lankan national Dinesh Asanka Fernando Wannukawatta-Waduge.

Olga Elizabeth Smith has pleaded guilty to a single charge of manslaughter, in relation to the stabbing death earlier this year of her partner Marvin Xavier Conolly Armendarez, 27.

Department of Environment officer Bradley Johnson, who took the witness stand Wednesday, 22 Jan., told the jury that an area of South Sound commonly called ‘Pull and Be Damned Point’, was a dangerous area for swimmers.

Boat captain Sean Michael McDonald denied responsibility for a boating accident that claimed the lives of two people and injured another. McDonald, a Canadian, pleaded not guilty on Friday, 24 Jan., to two counts of manslaughter and one count of causing grievous bodily harm.

The trial of two men charged in relation to the drowning of 14-year-old Risco Batten began in the Grand Court on Friday. Michael Anthony Stewart and Larry Levers are jointly charged with manslaughter and cruelty to a child. At the time of the 2015 drowning, Stewart and Levers were both employed as senior youth supervisors and youth workers at the Bonaventure Boys Home, a government-owned facility that houses boys between the ages of 13 and 16.

Police are looking for people they believe may have witnessed a violent assault that resulted in the death of a 36-year-old Sri Lankan man last month. “We know, without a doubt, there were about 75 to 100 people present in Bananas that night,” said RCIPS Detective Superintendent Pete Lansdown. “We probably estimate from the CCTV and inquiries that we have made that there are 20 to 25 people who probably saw what happened. We’ve had to put in as much effort to find witnesses as we’ve had to find and identify the suspects in this case.”

Jeremy Ralph Parchman, 20, of West Bay and Shimar Kelly, 22, of George Town are jointly charged with one count of manslaughter. Kevin Parchman, 24, who has been charged in relation to the same incident faces a single count of assault causing actual bodily harm.

Justice Timothy Owen adjourned sentencing in Grand Court on Friday for Waylon Timothy Rivers, 20, who pleaded guilty earlier in the week to a charge of manslaughter.

In Grand Court this week, Waylon Timothy Rivers pleaded not guilty to murder but guilty to manslaughter in the death of his father, Timothy Rivers, in North Side on June 8, 2018.

A West Bay man who shot and killed another man in the doorway of a busy restaurant was found guilty of murder on Monday.