ST LUCIA: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING POLICEMAN

February 9, 2011: in St Lucia, High Court Judge Kenneth Benjamin sentenced Michel ‘Bage’ Joseph to hang for the April 27, 2008 murder of a policeman.
Constable Lester Garvin Remy was shot four times while he and other colleagues were executing a search warrant on a home in South Castries.
Scores of people, most noticeably members of the police force, gathered in the Criminal High Court for the sentencing hearing.
The incident sent shock waves throughout the St Lucia Police Force and the rest of the society as it was the first time a police officer was killed here in the line of duty.
Defence attorney Al Elliot immediately announced plans to appeal the judgment, stating that there were some legal issues that were not addressed. (Sources: Jamaica Observer, 10/02/2011)