The police have come under fire from two prominent attorneys for charging a youth with murder and allowing him to remain on remand for a year in the absence of evidence supporting the allegation.

Mother of murder victim Kareem “Maxi” Priest, 21, who was shot in the head at close range exactly one year ago, said she was shocked that the man accused of killing her son was able to walk free.

Securing a death penalty on a murder conviction in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is “virtually impossible” as the legal standard to be met is extremely high.

The Attorney General (AG) was highly critical of the police’s prosecution of cases in the Magistrates’ Court, calling their performance “dismal.

The man accused of stabbing a US cruise passenger to death almost three years ago has appeared in the High Court.

Police commissioner Vere Brown has taken Chief Magistrate Joanne Walsh to task, calling her recent decision to dismiss a high profile case against six opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) officials “woefully unreasonable”.

Local authorities have secured their second money laundering conviction on record following guilty pleas by Venezuelan couple Juan Antonio Gil Diaz, 29, and Andreina Guerra Marin, 20, who had to forfeit over $124,000 to the state yesterday.

Criminals could soon be put to work to repay their debt to society in a bid to reduce pressure on the woefully overcrowded prison – currently at double capacity.

Convicted police corporal Artis Findley and former Treasury worker Zelma Bramble have to fork out a combined $140,000 in fines and compensation for defrauding the Treasury of about $70,000 in a pension scam over two years ago.

Former head of the Financial Services Regulatory Commission (FSRC) Leroy King has failed in another attempt to evade his extradition to the US on charges linked to the Allen Stanford $7 billion Ponzi scheme.