St. Maarten – The atmosphere in the downstairs courtroom at the courthouse in Philipsburg was heavy on Wednesday morning when Judge M. Keppels returned the heaviest possible sentence against Curtley Allison Richards and Sherwan Roberts: life imprisonment for three robberies that ended in manslaughter (the so-called Regatta-killings), a gang-rape, ill-treatment and several violent robberies.
Richards, 32, and Roberts, 20, entered the courtroom under heavy security from the police arrest team with their hands cuffed in a waist restraint. The two men underwent their sentencing in an apparent state of apathy, and they showed no emotion, anger or frustration at all when their life virtually ended with the life sentence.
sacre lazy is voler all you like then good for all u
A brute you live a brute you die. Life is about accountability. We must modify our behavior.
Good job Judge but just one thing,turn them over to me let me drag their ass behind a car for a few miles and then pour acid on the bruises
death penalty for them please,kill them.
Dos Dominican really can make us shame they should hang them , let take. The french island some Dominica boy go there and do some bad crimes and run back home the government of France should have agreement to get them here and the Dominican government shield hang them
Still yet we are bless
What did you say, I did not understand? Speak english please.
it is jaw dropping to see boys that you know do things like this,especially when parents try to keep things together/. Fact is Cain killed his own blood brother, we were born sinners and the devil is always there to prey on our weaknesses , some of us go off the deep end and canot step back out in time.you know what, all it takes is one bad decision. in Dominica i’ll tell you we are very agressive, not so polite and even down right rude starting from the custom officers and to the boys on the block who think it is ok to get money at any cost.but we can be polite when we choose to, its just that we accept that behavior from each other and no one wants to set the standard. Mwe se jean qwatanse. Take a look, everybody is hustling to have property, nice cars and boast of their exploits.Nobdy is their brothers keeper. so what do we really expect? where are the real opportunities? when was the last time you heard adults have some meaningful debate, we basically quarrel and give each other maypwe, and you know what? there have always been potanse mal feteh repah aviolleh in da, we just shame that everybody know our secret. Fact is we are a people to blame there is something we did not do to stop that like it or not. da is still the hardest. Prayer for da and posee.
hmmmmm…..sherwan that is the thank you, you giving your mother boy…sherwen was in sxm and looked for work for him to do and came back to d/a doing something with his life, but you have to go and set a bad name for your family and put shame in your mother eyes, that trying her best to put food on you all table…..(internet children) lord protect the young
thank u sxm hope da is looking
So sad….What a waste. The devil never said he was going to attack all other countrys and stay away from Dominica. However, I know for sure that prayer works. For those who know how to pray, let’s get busy and pray that God will put a fence around our families, neighbors, friends, and our property. Any nation that forget God is doomed. CHRISTIANS RISE UP AND TAKE DOMINICA BACK.
You make your bed you lie in it .I hope the couyrts and the people of Dominica realise how things are delt with in the out side world no time to waste we need to take a page from this book
BUT WHAT ELSE THEY CAN GET NAH???????????????
Death penalty would have been much better for those 2 guys.I would let them feel what it is to know that you going to die by the hands of another human being. I would keep them on death row for about 3 yrs then execute them.
i agree ,because all now so they are thinking of means and ways to escape.
We just had one of Dominican parentage killed on Thursday morning in a home invasion incident.he was arm and mask there was five peoplle in the house one had short gun he pump 3 bullets in him.That same individual killed a guy in grand Bay few years ago by cutting his neck off.He served some time in prison and was deported back to ST.Thomas.That happen on ST.Thomas.
GOOD FOR THEM THEY GOT WHAT WHAT THEY DESERVED. THEY LEFT DA THINKING THAT THEY WOULD HAVE DONE SOMETHING GOOD WITH THEM-
SELVES THEY WENT KILLING ROBBING AND RAPING
PEOPLE. THEY DO THE CRIME LET THEM DO THE
TIME. AS A MATTER OF FACT SHOULD BE EXECUTED
THEY SHOULD HANG THEM!!!!! Thats all! These worthless hoodlums always have to travel abroad and embarrass Dominica. Pretty Soon they’re gonna impose some kinda Visa Restrictions on Dominicans who wish to travel to SM.
Who wants to say am Negative…..vashitick shioto!!!
that’s two out of Portsmouth… praise the Lord.. more to go.. life in prison… in Jesus name.. i wonder if it’s not this same guys causing the robbery in Portsmouth for the past few weeks…mmmm thank you Jesus
Are you for real? Do you listen or read news. how in this world could you have thought they were the ones committing crime in Portsmouth when they are locked up in SXM jail for months now?
Imbecile, how could they be the ones doing the robbery in Portsmouth when they were in jail in St.Martin awaiting sentencing? Read, if you can, before posting nonsense.
portsmouth seem to be breeding a lot of criminals, i guess what they see they learn. when you have men in government building those milti billion dollars empire in allu town it seem like it sends the idea to the youth of how allu will get the same so the best thing is rape, kill, steal, crime. crime… and the best thing is people in portsmouth always seem to condone this type of wrong doing, so if there is an air of criminality in the town then satan must make there his headquarters…
Come again? You for real?
dominica have alot of those criminal. when u in dominica just see how some people get on, for some simple thing they start your mother this and f— u and u can see these people is just time for them to do there act.
in da people not friendly like one time, just see how they start with that robbery thing. now u cant even walk on dominica road late at night.
congratulations guys for making history in st.maarten first life sentence rs on the island bunch of a**-wipes, u all should be taken of from the registry of Dominica because all you not seeing that beautiful country again ….ever
What is becoming of DA’s Men and Women? They watch to many of that Garbage call MTV coming from America. They all want to be Gangsters but do not want to do the time. The DA Government should ban all those rubish that is coming from Amreica unto the Television screens. The same Rubish is Happening right here in the UK
I hope this will serve as a lesson for our courts and justice system in DA. Jail all dem criminals for LIFE, especially those who supposed to be our leaders. All crime is crime.
Why should tax payers pay to keep them behind bars?
I am still proud to be Dominican and hope that this incident does not affect our relation with St Maarteen and the rest of the caribbean at large.
It’s a real shame, especially to the families of the two men. God bless our little island and parents please continue to do your best. Unfortunately we cannot choose what road they willtake but we can pave the path for them.
As usual we are failing to learn the lesson. I understand perfectly all the anger and rage. This was a grotesque crime and in no way excusable. However, playing the blame game and pointing fingers is not the way to go. As a nation this is quite a sad situation. It is indeed an embarrassment to us all. What have we learned? What led these young men to act out these vicious crimes? How are we going to help our young people? Instead of the mapwi let’s sit and think of the young ones in our homes and communities. I heard you all talk about the devil but what are we doing to protect our children from the devil. Are we raising them to fear God and make him the center of their lives? Dominicans blaming everything and everybody…. We need to STOP and use this situation as a time to reflect and pray. Pray for everyone who is affected directly and indirectly by this tradegy. Jesus came to save all….
If I had read this Jesus at the end of the paragraph I would not have given you a thumbs up. Jesus cannot save anyone. It’s God who saves.
You fool. Jesus and God are one
finally, a justice system that works………
you see how fast that trial ended. in dominica how many years for one trial. that is a justice system in sxm.
It does not always end that fast
I read the full story from the St.Martin news site and to say they were bad is an understatement.Some criminals is best to just eliminate them and ensure they get what they deserve.Now the system must feed and house these dirt bags until they die nonsense.The tax monies should be used for the ones that can be rehabilitated not the creatures that does the devil’s work.Jah knows if it was my peoples they did that too I wouldn’t care,I would go pure wu-tang clan on them.I support the death sentence 100%, to the pro life people go tell the victims family about your views.Governments send their people to kill for their countries every day and it’s fine but if the public wants to kill some sick killers it’s a problem.We live in such a hypocritical society it’s not even funny.To the families of the victims all I can say is lets hope for the best.They get raped,beaten and brutally murdered in prison.
THESE BAD EGGS BOILED THE GOOD ONES,NOW THE GOOD DOMINICAN PAYS FOR THESE GUYS ACT,I HOPE ALL YOU WILL NOT BLAMED THE FRENCH PEOPLE. SAME HAPPENED IN GUADELOUPE AND MARTINIQUE.I WISH IF I COULD DONE SOMETHING TO GET RID OF THESE BAD GUYS,THEY ARE USELESS FOR THE SOCIETY.
They should spend the rest of their lives at the Chateau D’if.
…What, and come back to take revenge on a society and the people who have done them ill? Alexandre Dumas is rolling in his grave at what you’re suggesting!!
Everybody talking ,i guranty you if that took place in dominica, the judge would not give them lifetime .Wey to go st maarten.The judge they have in dominica is a j
i like what u say
lol lifetime in dominica? they raping n six months doh passin they outside…kill n is two years. drugs? hmmm evidence missin case cannot call!
dem man will either be killed in jail or kill in jail. I hope none of these happens !
I hope that, like everyone of us sinners, they ask God for forgiveness.
Dont you know that as true CHRISTIANS WE ARE TO FORGIVE THEM AL ?????
So think twice about what finegsrs you point.
there crimes were quite terrible and he effects continue on the friends/ love ones and families concerned.
I really wish and pray they die in prison. Death is better for them. Life imprisonment is not a valid sentence for them…Please prisoners, kill them soon.
lol quite interesting that your name is karnival(carnival?) and you talk about christian
IF ST MARTIN CAN TREAT OUR CRIMINALS SO NICE WHY CAN’T WE? LETS TAKE A PAGE FROM ST MARTIN’S BOOK.
i read the event in the news paper in sm and they r realy brutal they should have thought of their actions but still jah is always there to forgive all u ,,the pain u caused the families r ireplacable and for that u r going to pat by spending the rest of ur live in prison ,,pure confinement
Some individuals from the time they small you know what kind of adults they will turn out to be. Curtley, I can’t really remember, but Sherwin I know fairly well and to tell you the truth I am not really surprised.
How many times they gotta tell allu that’s not Sherwin?? That’s his brother “Sherwan”
Sherwin boy! We go primary, secondary n collage together!!! U were not like that! Ur poor mother slavin by d road sellin plantain n peanuts for all u!!!!
Hmm poor ur mother… I shame yeh…
Thats not sherwin thats sherwan his younger bro
u mean a mother has 2 criminals in the family
life sentence for the robbers in dominica too. lets saygood ridance to bad rubbish. put them all away.
I know Curtley. He wasn’t my ‘friend’ but I guess you could say he was my ‘partner.’
One nite (years ago) I went down to this entertainment spot, and when I parked this paro dude rolled up on me and said that I had almost run him over, and if I didn’t give him some money he would smash my windshield.
I wasn’t fierce like I am now, back then. I was standing there wonderin if I should actually pay the paro (he was a well-built paro, ok) a couple bucks and save myself a couple grand on a windshield, when Curtley came around and asked what was goin on?
Paro dude immediately backed off and moved away. I turned to Curtley to thank him and I’ll nvr forget the expression on his face. He looked like a villain in a movie. Not angry but emotionless, like he would have just brutally stabbed paro dude to death without hesitation and not feel any semblance of remorse. Classic sociopath.
Since then I kept my interaction with him to ‘wha go’ ..maybe a tag. When I heard about his exploits in SXM I didn’t feel any surprise. Dude always had it in him.
I would take dem by their balls and hang dem…especially the Curtly…he wortless from time…
Shame-shame-shame …..we can’t be exporting violence… don’t let them escape @ all
ye, there is so much violence in Dom that it must be exported already…
THUMPS UP FOR THE SENTENCE
that’s the kind of men Dominican black women like or are incline to like, in the main, that is. they like the criminals that sell drugs, kill people, act gangster, sag their pants, and bring in the fat blood money so they can buy fake hair to display for their friends therefore making their friends or female enemies get jealous of their low-lifestyle asininity. Having achieve this much sought after accolade, the coveted Dominican female gets back at the ostentatious, stupid, blackminded friend by copulating with there man, or boo as they call it now, and thus they fray and then a consequent brawl ensues.
I bet you look over your shoulders every time you leave you residence. You are a very sick individual, a racist and a bigot all rolled up in one gigantic, fat, ugly body!
rass tar far rie you are a nuisance. anonymous is right you see that everyday you see that senario is iether you blind, hypocrite or just stupid.
I can’t come up with a sensible rebuttal to your argument so I resort to calling you names in hope that exposing your shortcomings will invalidate your argument.
@rastafari – there I translated your idiotic post into a worthy statement :D
I tired one those stupid girls….they just…sigh… and when you see you go behind better men now they have problems and they have so much things to tell you
COSTO THAT THERE MAN FROM POSSIE ?
You find anyone there looking like COSTO.. I can tell you don’t know Costo very well and you’re definitely not from Possie
They deserved more…….
It looking like dem man sell their souls to dyab!!! dem is not human dem is wicked syclop. somefing really wrong and it not looking simple. People pray and plead de blood of JESUS over allyou children. Ask de Heavenly Father to SATURATE their brain, their thoughts and actions. Alas we need to pray more!!!
Well at least is not on Dominica tax money they living so good riddance
in st martin jail they will wish they were dead
they may hang there self in jail
I tired one those stupid girls….they just…sigh… and when you see you go behind better men now they have problems and they have so much things to tell you
good….
such a stupid thing to say so u agree that thay carry out their crime overseas just because you wont pay?
I read the full story. I am speechless and shocked. If these psychiatric assessments are true I hope they actually spend life in prison.
How did they become so bad? Were they always like this?
THEY ARE NOT SO CALL DOMINICANS THEY HAD RECENTLY LEFT D/A CURTLY WAS IN JAIL IN D/A AS WELL FOR GOING ON A YAUGHT ROBBING AND BEATING A WHITE MAN AND HIS WIFE BOTH OF THEM ARE UNFORTUNATELY FROM PORTSMOUTH ………… GOOD RIDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH
Put a pin on those two names we are happy that we will not have to deal with their criminal activities again. As i always say if it talk like a duck walk like a duck steal like a duck, kill like a no good it should be put away one way or the other. Thanks ST. Martin we have some more coming your way soon.
yacht*
I read the rest of the article on the St.Maarten newspaper, and i really cannot believe that Dominican men were involved in these kinds of acts.. It is really frightening!!! What is this world coming to Jesus? These guys are really sick and they deserve every single bit of the punishment!!!
every where have some bad eggs and they spoiling it for others how sad
I for one am glad they were not deported to Dominica. Psychopaths and sociopaths have no place in society. They cannot be rehabilitated. Lock them up or execute them.
You could’nt have said it better than that. These guys should be up for the gallows
They should have been executed.
do they actually have death penalty in St Maarten?
Strongly agreed. It would be my pleasure to be their executioner.
sad, but u guys have to pay for your crimes,families were hurt and still hurting.
Where dey from in DA? How long they have been out of Dominica? It might be interesting to do some research on these so-called Dominicans who are arrested and sent to jail for violation of laws in countries such as St. Marten, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
The research should focus on where they originate from, family background single mother home, who raised them Grandmother, aunty etc; did they leave as children or adults, what conditions did they go to socio-economic when they left s kids. This might throw up some interesting information for social policy makers.
Curtly I do not know but I do know Sherwan, he was single handed raised by his mother who walked the streets of Portsmouth selling breadnut, peanuts roasted plantains just so her children could survive. That mother walked up and down to see that Sherwan remained in college but he did not want that. A family member tried to help him by removing him in DA so that he could work to help his mother and other sibling and look what he went and do. His mother told him that all she wants him to do is work to take care of himself and don’t worry about her, she just wanted him to make a man out of himself. Sherwan had caused his mother alot of pain since his arrest in SM that lady have cried every single day, on buses, at home, on the road anywhere she is and she is speaking about the mess that Sherwan had gotten himself into. What hurts more is whilst in jail before the sentencing Sherwan still had the guts to be calling his mother asking her to send him money, I feel your pains Lina but place your situation in God’s hand and He will give you consolation. Be strong!
ohhh hushh …their socio-economic circumstances and background have nothin to do with their behavior…they made those choices…Their are others who were raised from the same background as them and live good lives so please spear us all with they are a product of their society…..jus a bunch of bs…they shall suffer the consequences of their actions…
It’s so sad. These guys making D/cans shame. Curtly was leaving with a woman from Mahaut. I understood. These guys even getting woman. And they are sooooooooooo wicked. The other parner, is a bad guy also.Pray 4 there mothers
soon innocent Dominicans like me and others will not be able to go in no other country freely….weh papa peter will always pay for paul and all with allu dirty ways
when some one from a other country comes to another and do some thing bad they wont say jack did they include everyone in it that belong to that place jack come from
who ever say sins of parents dont follow children? i see, the evil yu do lives with yu, follow the trail……………..
st.maarten police alredy doh like dominicans all u still goin n do crime like dat in dem ppl place…well datz it for all u we papa..
Justice served! Rapist and any other sexual offenders should be placed in jail indefinitely! These guys create a cycle of abusers who continue to abuse. Good riddance! Too bad courts in Dominica don’t have the guts to do this.
Sure,yeh? When Behanzin was handing down sentences fitting the crime everybody jump on his back say he’s too harsh.
Dominica better pray that if they survive the life sentence they don’t get deported back here!!
behanzin wasn’t putting down sentences for sexual criminals. intact he was sending people to jail that stole pizza or very trivial things that would only mandate fines rather than jail time. he wasn’t tackling any difficult cases as those described above. Bheanzin was always on petty thefts which is easier to convict. Behanzin try to make a name for himself on minor offenses. so please step to the side! p.s: stop generalizing, i want to know if you saw me in here talking about behanzin. coming and talk your crap to me. roll eyes some people
GOOD.
20 and 32 year olds….not bad looking guys at all…why allu had to do this???? why????
who cares about how they look? what does their looks have to do with anything?struuuuups
dem man ah d DEVIL JUNIOR!
very good sentance
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dese dudes are the DEVIL himself…throw away the keys to their cell..they dont deserve to see the light of day
Who in Dominica is not a “DEVIL” What these men did are terribly wrong, but “he who have no faults, cast the first stone”.
who are you trying to defend
Them guyes were involved in robberies, gand rapes, murder, burning people alive etc etc etc read the damn enture story before you open your clappers !
who in DA you hear did all those crimes ?
dats y DNO ALLOWS US TO READ THE FULL STORY but again I wander if you can freaking read.
sarkway sor sort MAKAK QUI
so you mean to tell me…. all dem rapist and murderers…they have to walk free because all of us sin already so we cyah judge dem? nonsense you talking okay…
in bible time these type of people was put to death! If they had remorse then that would be a different story these…”men” or whatever they are…i personally don’t think they are men…anymore…we put to death….