September Assizes to close Thursday
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - THE Basseterre High Court would be having a busy three days as it prepares to close on Thursday (Dec. 13).
Three individuals are scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow (Dec. 11), two are expected to have a status hearing on Wednesday (Dec. 12) and the High Court would be closing on the following day.
Rodelle Clarke, Denzil Huggins and Kasper Rouse are expected to appear before His Lordship Justice Errol Thomas to be given their sentences for the offences of which they have been found and pleaded guilty to.
Clarke was found guilty on October 23, 2012 for abduction; an offence that was committed on Tuesday, June 7, 2011.
According to the facts of the case, Clarke entered the home of the victim while she was asleep and, holding her at knife-point, took her from there against her will.
Huggins was charged with neglecting or refusing to deliver some 794 post letters to their respective owners.
He was responsible for distributing mail in District One area, three which include the areas from Wigley Avenue in St. Johnson Village to Camps as well as La Guerite, Lime Kiln and Cayon Street.
According to the facts of the case, during the period in question, Huggins failed to deliver 794 post letters which were found unopened in his home when searched by police officers under a search warrant.
He was unanimously found guilty on November 5, 2012.
Rouse pleaded guilty to the unlawful wounding and wounding with intent of 28-year-old Gregory 'Webber' Mills on December 3, 2012 just as his trial was about to begin.
The offence was committed on September 16, 2010.
Similarly Alpha Duporte and Sheldon Maloney would be having a status hearing on Wednesday (Dec. 12) to determine their outcome.
Duporte is expected to be sentenced following a psychiatric evaluation.
He was found guilty on December 5, 2011 for the murder of Dexter ‘Asbal’ Marsham and guilty of two counts of the attempted murder of Royden Gumbs and Jessica Gumbs which took place in Godwin Ghaut on July 18, 2009.
He has since been awaiting psychiatric evaluation and sentencing.
And Maloney has been detained at Her Majesty's Prison since July 28, 2011 pending an update on his mental stability.
He had underwent psychiatric analysis by Dr. Sharron Halliday after he pleaded not guilty to indecently assaulting a woman in Cayon on July 31, 2009, and then pleaded insanity at his trial at the January 2011 Assizes.
Dr. Halliday stated in her report that Maloney was suffering from a mental health disorder as early as 1999.
An update was expected to be given within a three-month period.
Meanwhile the September Criminal Assizes would be closing on Thursday.
