Compensation for schoolboy’s death almost all paid

Two of the three young people convicted of causing the death of their 11-year-old schoolmate in 2009 have settled payment of compensation to the deceased’s parents.

This was disclosed on Thursday by attorney-at-law Angella Mitchell-Gittens when the matter of 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 came up for hearing.

The three had been ordered to pay a combined $50 000 to the parents of the late Elroy Gibson.

Of that total, Alleyne and Goddard were ordered to pay $15 000 each while Bradshaw had to pay $20 000.

In an update on the payments, to Justice Randall Worrell in the No. 2 Supreme Court, Mitchell-Gittens disclosed that Bradshaw and Goddard had paid their sums in full. Alleyne, she said, had a $4 000 balance, $3 000 of which he had with him on Thursday. He expects to have the balance in two weeks’ time.

As such, the matter was adjourned until June 16. The judge said on that day the court will finalise the case.

In trying to get away from the bullying of the three former Princess Margaret Secondary School students, Gibson was struck by a vehicle on September 20, 2009 and subsequently died in hospital.

The three who went on trial were found guilty of manslaughter in July 2019.

Mitchell-Gittens represented Alleyne and Goddard while defence counsel Arthur Holder appeared for Bradshaw in the case which was prosecuted by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale.