Mapp Hill man facing sentencing phase for arms possession

Attorneys for the Crown and defence will make sentencing submissions in a gun and ammunition case of a St Michael man on November 8.

The adjournment was given after Kiplin Hallam Ifill, from Mapp Hill, who is represented by attorney-at-law Marlon Gordon pleaded guilty before Justice Pamela Beckles on Thursday to having possession of a firearm and six rounds of ammunition on June 23, 2010.

The No. 5 Supreme Court heard from Crown Counsel Danielle Mottley that police executed a search warrant at Ifill’s residence on the mentioned date.

On arrival, after gaining entry, the now-convicted man was asked which bedroom was his and he showed the police.

While conducting a search of the room a bag was seen hanging from a nail. It was searched and the unlicensed weapon was discovered among other items along with the ammunition. “I ain’t know nothing about that gun he said,’’ said Ifill when asked to account for the arms.

When further questioned he said he was given the weapon by another man “to hold” some two years ago. But he said that the same man was killed the very next day.

He said: “I did only keep de gun cause I din know what to do wid it and I did frighten to carry it to the police cause I would have get charge for it.”