R v Green

• Jurisdiction: Jamaica
• Judge: Campbell, J.A.
• Judgment Date: 27 July 1987
• Neutral Citation: JM 1987 CA 48
• Docket Number: Criminal Appeal No. 14 of 1987
• Court: Court of Appeal (Jamaica)
• Date: 27 July 1987

Court of Appeal

Campbell, J.A.; Downer, J.A.; Bingham, J.A. (Ag.)

Criminal Appeal No. 14 of 1987

R

and

Green

Appearances

Delroy Chuck for the appellant.

Winston Douglas for the Crown.

Criminal Law - Murder — Application for leave to appeal — Motive established — Confession by appellant full and voluntary — Counsel for appellant informed court that he had not found any ground on which he could properly sustain the application for leave to appeal — Application refused.

Campbell, J.A.

1 The applicant was sentenced to death in the Home Circuit Court on February 3, 1987 for the murder of his girlfriend Paulette Hyatt otherwise called Sandra. The motive was jealousy or alternatively bruised ego. He discovered that Sandra had a common law husband with whom she was actually living long before and throughout her side affair with him.

2 On Friday morning 1st February, 1985, the deceased left her home at Lot 755 Seaview Gardens, Spanish Town for work. Her partially mutilated body was recovered in the early morning of February 5, 1985 from a disused pit latrine at the back of premises numbered 64 Arnold Road, St. Andrew where the applicant resided.

3 The information leading to the recovery of the body of the deceased from this pit latrine was given by the applicant to Det. Cpl. Milton Simpson. This information was later confirmed by the applicant to Det. Sgt. Malcolm and...