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St. Paul’s Youth Found Guilty Of 2015 Murder

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By: Drizel Hanley

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (Friday 7th December 2018)- Kevon Hamilton,25, of St. Paul’s Village but who resided in West Farm has been found guilty of the June 2015 murder of Ernest ‘Gray Patch’ Hendricks of Palmetto Point following a hearing at the High Court and is expected to be sentenced come early next year.

Hendricks who owned and operated a shop and small bakery in his hometown, was shot during an attempted robbery and succumbed to his injuries some two weeks later.

Reports of the three year old case suggests that Hendricks was baking bread when a lone masked gunman entered the bakery and demanded money on 24th June.

Hamilton was originally arrested and charged for gun and ammunition possession having being found with a gun that very same afternoon. He was subsequently listed as a person of interest in the murder of Hendrickson.

He was the charged with murder after the shopkeeper died on July 7th 2015.

The judge ordered a social inquiry report in preparation for the sentencing exercise and Hamilton was remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison.

Hamilton went on trial on Monday of last week (26th November) and was represented by Fitzroy Eddie.

Director of Public Prosecutions Valston Graham and Crown Counsel Vaughn Woodley represented the Crown.

On Thursday of last week (29th November), the jury returned a verdict of 10-2 guilty of murder.

Hamilton is scheduled to be sentenced on January 17th 2019.

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