Bail conditions for three convicted manslayers will be regularised when they return to the No. 2 Supreme Court tomorrow before Justice Randall Worrell.
The adjournment was given moments after Shaquille Shamal Khalleel Bradshaw and Doniko Javier Alleyne both of Balls Land, Christ Church and Maria Antoinette Goddard of Parish Land C, Balls Land, Christ Church were found guilty of manslaughter in connection with the unlawful killing of 11-year-old Ian Elroy Gibson, a Princess Margaret Secondary School student, on September 20, 2009.
It took the eight-member jury just over an hour to reach the unanimous verdict for each of the three following four hours of summation by Justice Worrell.
Attorney-at-law Angella Mitchell-Gittens who represents Alleyne and Goddard urged the court to allow her clients to remain on bail pending sentencing.
She submitted that her clients had been on bail and in society for the past ten years and had never missed their court dates either at the Magistrates’ or High Courts. Mitchell-Gittens further argued that the offence had taken place when her clients were 12 and 14 years old. However, she said they were now in their 20s, gainfully employed and Goddard was now a mother of a two-year-old.
“We are cognisant of the fact that having now been convicted their status may very well change. But at this stage for the last ten years they have had an exceptional record for their attendance at court,” Mitchell-Gittens submitted.
Bradshaw has Arthur Holder and Danielle Mottley as his legal counsel. Mottley in making an application for her client to remain on bail pending sentence stated among other things that her client was also gainfully employed, had no issues with attending court and had no previous convictions.
In his submission Principal Crown Counsel Alliston Seale, who prosecuted the case, said while the three had now been convicted of a “very serous” offence he could not in “safe conscience” object to their bail and send them to an adult facility.
“I cannot look at them as they are now, I have to look at them as 12 and 14-year-olds, that is the problem . . . . But these persons would have been sentenced to a juvenile facility. I can’t in safe conscience ask that they be remanded to an adult facility now . . . . For that reason I cannot in safe conscience object to bail,” Seale said.
In the case, which began on June 3, the jury heard that Gibson collided with a car driven by Gian Holder on Sunbury Road, St Philip on September 18, 2009 after being in an altercation with the three, who also attended the same school. He died two days later at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital from his injuries.
In his closing arguments last week Principal Crown Counsel Seale said it was bullying by the three while next to a busy public road, that caused the death of Gibson when he was forced to escape a beating by fleeing across the street.
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On bail for ten years ?
You got to laugh at the Judiciary system in Barbados … Don’t think the Victims family
Laughing though……
Parents at times fail but children needs to think for themselves. My pray.is that others learn from all that’s happen .
given the bail sends the wrong message to the rest of our youth.
Life goes on for them but that family never got to see their son or brother grow up . He never got to live to explore his potential.
I wonder how the one that is now a mother would feel if her child is bullied as well?
Knowing the Barbadian society, her child will grow up hearing that its mother is a murderer and it will affect that child.
Parents instill the right things in your children , when they do wrong teach them to own it. You won’t be doing them any favors by covering or justifying their wrongs.
These three probably won’t spend any jail time ,because the incident occurred when they were minors.
Wunnah read this article carefully. I waiting to see the sentence. The judge seeing them as 12 and 14 year olds. Tell he send them to the government industrial school then for the next 5 or 6 years then transfer them to the adult prison. Have to wait and see the closure for this family.
V good
Now what bail make an example out of this not bullies will continue in schools this hay will let bsjans know if the court system is a joke .
Incarceration after all this time will serve no purpose this will haunt them for the remainder of their lives . It is sad that the dead child’s parents had to wait 10 years for this to go before the law court. I hope they raise their children to never bully.
I will wait to see how the judicial system deals with this very passionate matter.
I do not think locking up now will do any good for the victim family .it was a accident ten year is time to forgive and bring closure. How ever you look at it all will suffer because of this
Be careful what you do…somethings will follow and destroy your life …
Stop bullying…
Sorry justice take so long …
Wunna in Barbados does just make me laugh anyone going to jail should be the Principal of the school at the time and the parents of the said children. The father said he complained to one of the mothers who lived up by him and she never gave any satisfaction, she would closed the door in his face. The Father said the Principal did nothing either after numerous complaints so tell me who wants jailing?
Wicked people
No one knows what that little boy went through. He was bullied from primary school and was moved by his father to meet up on them again in secondary school doing the same thing. That little boy was scared out of his wits…no wonder he had to run from a group of bullies and ran into a car. This was no accident. That little boy feared for his life.
This is indeed a very tough one.
I will reserve comments because I do not know the extent of the bullying. Their actions extreme or not have been exacerbated by the unfortunate accident.
Murderers
Hiding face ?Now really
Barbados garbage third world justice system,10 years to resolve a case that involve juveniles who are now adults what a f- -king joke.
It is so unfare that poor boy you feel them 3 or their parents have any remorse I don’t think so you live what you learn
Still feel they need to so some time
I wonder if it was the judge family if he would have given them bail also I am only asking