A court matter involving Denny Shillingford is one of the many cases to be heard by the Eastern Court of Appeal of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court(ECSC) when it begins sitting in Dominica on Monday morning.
Shillingford was, in 2010, convicted and was jailed on a charge of causing grievous bodily harm . The matter was appealed and the EECA ordered a new trial before a different judge.
However, at the second trial he was found guilty and sentenced to seven years behind bars. The matter was appealed again last November but the judges ruled that more time was needed to study the documents in the case and it was traversed to the April sitting of the court beginning today (Monday).
It is alleged that Shillingford had instructed his pit-bull to attack the complainant, Davidson Joseph, in the early hours of September 24, 2009 at St. Joseph.
In his defense Shillingford had insisted that Joseph was the aggressor who had attacked him with a cutlass, which led to the dog biting him.
There is a total of 33 matters to be heard by the Court of Appeal.
There are high court civil appeals and magisterial criminal appeals against sentence and against convictions. Among them are Daryl James vs the police in which James was convicted for possession of a controlled drug and possession of firearm without a valid licence.
There are two magisterial civil appeals and 18 high court civil appeals. Among them are: Alix Boyd Knights vs Winera (Dominica) Ltd, Fenton Telemacque vs the authorized officer et al, and Attorney General of Dominica vs Richard Honore.
Is this the man who the experienced journalist claim carried a fifteen gallons container of gas up St. Aroment, jumped a fence, poured the gas over a car and then set it a fire? I see no scratches. Can that tale, fairy or otherwise be true? Had to beleive.
see the amount of garbage some of allu can talk? did any journalist claim the man walk up st. aroment with 15 gallon container?? You see how wicked some of allu Dominicans are??? Deliberately distorting what was report and what was confessed to talk your rubbish about tale and fairy. Look a bunch of wicked people in that country we Jah.
so long that hapen now looking for scratches
So was the pitbull injured or killed with the cutlass?
What is he doing with a Pit-Bull? His bank account fat he appealing. I say don’t be fooled, take his appeal money and live him in Stocky..
“leave” him at stock farm, my lady live
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