Topic: Rolan Welcome

A Grand Court judge sentenced Rolan Welcome to 10 years in prison this week for breaking into a woman's home in East End while she slept and threatening her with a machete.

A Grand Court jury on Monday found Rolan Welcome and Antascio Rankine guilty of conspiracy to murder Sven Connor, who was shot dead in a hail of bullets inside his East End home in 2023.

Jurors began discussions after Justice Cheryll Richards delivered a painstaking summing up of the murder case against Antascio Rankine and Rolan Welcome.

Counsel for defendant Antascio Rankine said that the prosecution's evidence and the summing up disguised gaps in the case against his client.

A key witness under cross-examination at the trial over the shooting of East End resident Sven Connor in December 2023 asked a court Friday if they should have given evidence or remained silent over what they had witnessed on the night of the murder.

A Grand Court jury heard Wednesday that Sven Connor, who was killed on 7 Dec. 2023, died in a "hail of gunfire" inside his home in East End after four men conspired to murder him.

The murder trial of two men accused of shooting Sven Connor multiple times in his East End home in December has been delayed due to the unavailability of a key prosecution witness.

Roland Welcome and Antascio Rankine have both denied any involvement in the killing of Sven Conor, who was gunned down in his East End home two months ago.

Anstascio Rankine and Rolan Welcome Jr. have both been charged in relation to the murder of Sven Connor, and have been remanded into custody.