In St. Vincent, Chief Justice of the Peace Rechanne Browne, Friday sentenced a senior nurse who was charged with having 60 kilograms of cocaine in her possession to 2 years and ten months in jail.
The court docket heard that Nurse Lucrehsa Nanton, 35, had the cocaine in her possession on the Owia Clinic on January 22, final yr. Final week, she pleaded responsible to the cost of possession of 59.939 grams of cocaine with intent to provide when she appeared on the Critical Offences Courtroom.
Earlier this week, on the Georgetown Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom, the place the chief Justice of the Peace presided, the prosecution withdrew a cost of drug trafficking towards the well being employee.
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In handing down the sentence, the chief Justice of the Peace mentioned she had consulted the sentencing tips and assessed the class of the offence primarily based on the quantum and the function that the defendant performed.
The chief Justice of the Peace mentioned the court docket had assessed the circumstances and concluded that Nanton’s function was important. She mentioned the annoying options of the offence are that the drug was effectively hid in a barrel lined with medical provides within the nurses’ quarters on the clinic.
The police needed to break the door to get into the room after the keys for the nurses’ quarters have been unavailable.
Browne mentioned having perused the warning assertion, the court docket concluded that Nanton had tried to shift blame for the drug. Completely different folks have been taken into custody as a part of the investigation, primarily based on statements given by the accused.
The chief Justice of the Peace mentioned because the workers nurse for the world, Nanton had a place of belief, accountability and authority and the time when the cocaine was taken to the clinic, it was a effectively calculated and deliberate course of.
The chief Justice of the Peace famous that whereas the nurse had pleaded responsible to the offence, she didn’t accomplish that on the earliest alternative and never instantly after the drug was examined.
The court docket heard that on January 22, final yr, cops from the Speedy Response, Particular Patrol, and Narcotics Models, appearing on data, executed a search warrant at Nanton’s dwelling and the Owia Clinic, the place she was the nurse in cost.
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