UPDATE: Jamaican brothers get 10 years for wounding chef
The siblings were found guilty of the charges of wounding and carrying offensive weapons when they appeared in the High Court on June 4, 2013. The duo had been accused of wounding a Chef employed at Pussers, Mr Loraine Springer aka Tony.
Earlier, Justice Redhead had disagreed with the Crown’s recommended period of sentencing.
"I don't agree," was an emphatic statement made by Justice Redhead when Principal Crown Counsel Tiffany Scatliffe recommended 5-7 years sentence for the Jamaican brothers.
The brothers, who were both represented by Attorney at Law Stephen Daniels, had two character witnesses. One was a Pussers’ Manager, Devon Hamilton, who said he was surprised and shocked to have known that the two were capable of committing the offences as convicted. He said the brothers had grown to become close family friends of his and they were of very good character.
Mr Daniels pleaded with the court for a non-custodial sentence but Justice Redhead said he could not meet such a request. Justice Redhead further said the incident was pre-mediated. The judge also made it clear that he was not prepared to pass a sentence that was in the lower scale of 5-7 years.
Mr Daniels further pleaded his case by stating that both are committed family men with children who are totally dependent on them. The lawyer also said his clients’ current employers were willing to continue to accept them as employees.
See previous article posted July 5, 2013
Jamaican siblings found guilty of wounding chef
- to be sentenced on July 10, 2013
Jamaican siblings Patrick and Michael Facey were found guilty of the charges of wounding and carrying offensive weapons when they appeared in the High Court on June 4, 2013.
The duo had been accused of wounding a Chef employed at Pussers, Mr Loraine Springer aka Tony.
While giving testimony in the trial, Springer told the court that he had received a threatening text message from one of the brothers and several further threats during a telephone conversation the same night.
The brothers had allegedly pulled out machetes on the defendant. "I turn and say I dead here tonight," Springer had told the court. He had also alleged that he wrestled with Patrick on the morning of July 31, 2011.
The brothers had reportedly fled the scene, leaving Springer wounded after his room-mate had raised an alarm.
Patrick and Michael were also found guilty of carrying offensive weapons. They have been remanded to prison.
The duo is to return to court on July 10, 2013 for sentencing. Prior to the verdict, the brothers were out on bail. They were represented by attorney at law Stephens Daniels.
The crown was represented by senior Crown Counsel Leslie Ann Faulkner and Principal Crown Counsel Tiffany Scatliffe.
Justice Albert Redhead presided over the trial.
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u all need to stop saying these things about jamaican look at a yu tolan rape 12 year old breed them go st thomas go steal go st thomas have kids no sonebody country that u all need to stop chat $h1t ok because u all live in incest and crime u all run to the states and do all kind of things and pretend like u all perfect. ok u all should glad jamaican come here fi show u all how fi dress and take care a u man and cook food ok im a jamaican and tired of all u remarks because u all talking crap u all lef here and go a other people country go live is nuff a you go school and college and is jamaica u all go u all go santo domingo go breed kids and come back here u all live with uno wifes and a man u dey wid every country have there troubles but here in tatola uno behave like uno perfect look at iran and irrak talk about that but everything u talk bout send dem back if we lef talola dun wid u tink we all live wid we mumma and daddy and rent house like au hell no we a house owners so uno back up all big big man live wid dem madda dont ow nothing but a car u all too brite say what u all want say but uno ago back and knw say ww knw al u duty nastiness here we see and bline an hear and deff ok authorities need yo come look in a u judical system because when u from here do things its a slapp on the hand other uno send them a prison fi life fi nothing send di boy dem home make dem go serve dem time a jamaica than here ten years and who a rape an kill na get that
I don't understand your logic or your reasoning at all... If the USVI was poor and broke why would have Tolans gone over there to build it up. Isn't it the fact that the United States of America was investing milllions of dollars into those islands therefore jobs and opportunities was created over there is the main reason why so many Tolans left the BVI for better opportunity and work???? Isn't it a fact that the produce that was sent to St Thomas was done so because the people had money to buy the produce. It was a market where Totolian could sell their produce. It was not given to the people as hand outs??? You are making it seems as if the people from the BVI went to the USVI like the red cross to offer their assistance free of charge. Whatever work the Tortolians did in the USVI they were paid for it. It was not done free of charge. In addition, St Croix was and agricultural based economy so I doubt very much if any produce from the BVI went over there. please inform.. Thanks
wow!!! let them chop that !!! now he gone and throw away 10 years of life and drag his brother with him. Now somebody else will be chopping his w***for 10 yrs gone get locked up for nonsense.
You need to shut ur island cu#t. cause most of the child molesters are from down island. jamaica,trinidad,st vincent and guyana. and jamaica have the highest murder rate in the world if tortola is so bad why the ayo dont pack up and go back to ayo country instead of trying to get rights for ayoself and ayo chdren.
We jamaicans know style u all have to talk up to us notice a Jamaican and a Spanish girl r boy u all have to watch our @$$ as we parterre thank god u can spot us
Has I said not all tolans r bad but has soon as a Jamaican do something wrong we don't condone wrong is wrong but what u tolans do is start cussing every Jamaican and that's wrong ok plain wrong just like how we here working is the same way tolans on other people country working and doing $h1t so stop pointing fingers just deal with the issues at hand and stop being so negative to us
Tortola had no crime, Jamaican create all d crime. All over d world ar u create crime and make trouble.
Mmmm well somebody has to do it well show me your 10.r7r5r6cxc past is family and connection get u your job we have no problem working for our money could be cleaning $h1t don't care god say by the sweat of your brow you shall eat no problem but when we all come to you about business u can't spell our name we have to spell it for u that is the best a u one thing for sure no Jamaican na so dem name pin bulla and nyam it figure that saying dey we r not pretty dunce