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Another 3
released in Grenada, Coard and 9 others re-sentenced. |
June 28, 2007:
The Grenada 13 (Originally 17) is now down to 10 after
three more were released on Wednesday by Justice Francis
Belle of Barbados in St George's. The three ordered
for immediate release were Christopher Stroude, Lester
Redhead and Cecil Prime. The remaining 10 which include
Bernard Coard, Sewlyn Strachan, Liam James, Callitus
Bernard, Ewart Layne, Leon Cornwall, Hudson Austin, John
Ventour, Dave Bartholomew and Colville McBarnette, have been
re-sentenced for up to 40 years in
prison - 35 years of which most of them have already served.
The Grenada 13 (originally the Grenada 17) were convicted
and sentenced to death in 1986 but their sentence was
replaced by life imprisonment in 1991. On February 7, 2007,
the Privy Council ordered that they be re-sentenced.
In December 2006, three members of the then Grenada 17,
namely, Andy Mitchell, Vincent Joseph and Cosmos Richardson,
were released after serving thirty years in prison for
eleven counts of manslaughter.
The men qualified for a one third reduction in their
sentences based on good behavior and were released
after spending twenty years in prison
A written judgment in the case of the “Grenada 13” is
to be delivered in two weeks' time. |
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