Court rules man be released from prison
published: Friday | February 17, 2006

THE COURT of Appeal ruled last week that 32-year-old Everton Williams, a tailor and construction worker of Little London, Westmoreland, must be released from prison.

Attorney-at-law Shaun Reynolds argued that the five-year-prison sentence for six bullets was manifestly excessive. Williams had pleaded guilty on October 27, 2003, to illegal possession of ammunition. He was sentenced in the Regional Gun Court in Montego Bay to five years' imprisonment.

The Court of Appeal agreed with Mr. Reynolds that the sentence was manifestly excessive. The court said that the judge did not make any allowance for the guilty plea. The police held Williams with the bullets on September 9, 2003. Williams who had no previous convictions said that a friend had asked him to keep the bullets.