Leoda Bradshaw and Roland Balfour, the opposite two individuals accused within the homicide of Jamaican Parliamentarian Phillip Paulwell’s 10-month-old daughter and her mom, have been remanded till early 2024.
On Friday, a Supreme Court docket Choose ordered the 2 to return to court docket on March 6, 2024.
Throughout Friday’s listening to, the court docket was knowledgeable that the prosecution’s case file is incomplete. In keeping with studies, the forensic materials, forensic certificates and statements from investigators weren’t on file. When the 2 make their subsequent court docket look, it’s anticipated that each one excellent paperwork shall be out there and disclosed to the protection workforce.
Choose Vinnette Graham-Allen ordered that on or earlier than January 31, the statements from investigators needs to be submitted. The forensic materials and certificates had been ordered to be submitted on or earlier than February 29.
Bradshaw and Balfour had been charged with homicide and different offences in relation to the kidnapping and killing of 27-year-old Toshyna Patterson and her 10-month-old daughter Sarayah Paulwell in September.
Bradshaw, who shares a toddler with Phillip Paulwell, has been charged with two counts of conspiracy to homicide, two counts of conspiracy to kidnapping, two counts of kidnapping, and two counts of homicide. Balfour, the cousin of Bradshaw, faces comparable costs.
The opposite two males that had been implicated within the double homicide had been sentenced final month.
Richard Brown, a 31-year-old graphic artist from Kingston, was sentenced to 30 years in jail on every of the 2 counts of homicide for the killing of child Sarayah and her mom.
He was additionally sentenced to at least one 12 months and 10 months in jail on every of the 2 counts of kidnapping of the mom and daughter. The sentences are to be served concurrently and he has been ordered to serve 20 years earlier than he’s eligible for parole.
Brown’s confederate, Roshane Miller, was sentenced to serve seven years and 10 months for every rely of accent earlier than the actual fact to homicide; two years and 10 months for every rely of conspiracy to kidnap; and one 12 months and 10 months for misprision of felony. The sentences are to run concurrently.
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