His Lordship ordered Cannonier to stand and just before his fate was read to him, he told him that he not only confronted the law but he also plotted to subvert the law and prevent justice from being served.
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Romeo "Buncum" Cannonier
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Stone-faced and expressionless, Cannonier listened as his fate was read. “You are sentenced to death by hanging.”
Cannonier was also told by His Lordship that he sees no hope of reform for him at this time.
The murderer, shortly after sentencing, was whisked away from the court and taken to Her Majesty’s Prison where he will begin his stint as a “condemned prisoner”.
A police officer with whom, Delvin Nisbett had trained some 10 years prior to his death, sat in on the sentencing hearing and with tears streaming down her face, she peered at a picture she was holding in her hands. Nisbett, along with herself and other police officers were the subjects of that photograph.
Cannonier, on 23rd October 2007, was convicted by a five man/seven woman jury of his peers of committing the 25th July 2004 offence.
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Police Constable Delvin Nisbett
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According to evidence presented in the case, Nisbett, while walking along the stretch of road between Parsons Village and Dieppe Bay, was approached by Cannonier and shot in excess of four times about the body.
Other evidence in the case was that on the day following the incident, Cannonier confessed to his then girlfriend, Makenia Lucas that he shot and killed a police officer. It was also revealed that Cannonier asked Lucas to steal a gun from Michael Powell, with whom she was also friendly at that time, and when she refused, he told her that he would steal the gun himself.
Further evidence revealed that that gun was the same that was used to kill Officer Nisbett.
Cannonier is slated to stand trial along with Sheldon Isaac, Ruedeney Williams and Louis Gardner for the murder of Gavin “Magilla” Gilbert of Saddlers Village. He was killed in the early part of 2005. In a strange twist, however, Cannonier was in prison when the incident occurred.
The case is scheduled to be tried on 19th February 2007.
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Basseterre, St. Kitts: “Thank you Lord, thank you Lord...”, were the words which emanated from mouth of the mother of Police Constable Delvin Nisbett just after she witnessed the sentencing to death of her son’s murderer, Romeo “Buncum” Cannonier.