Source: Reuters
Pubdate: Tue, 8 Sep 1998

APPEAL GETS CAYMAN DRUG SMUGGLERS LONGER SENTENCES

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (Reuters) - Two convicted drug couriers
got a bad case of smuggler's blues after they appealed to a Cayman
Islands' judge to reduce their sentences. Instead, Judge Henry Graham
increased the time they must spend behind bars. The Caribbean News
Agency reported Tuesday Paulette Scott, a Jamaican originally
sentenced to six months for cocaine smuggling, received four-and-half
years after Graham heard her appeal.

Her accomplice, Ivan Eubanks of the Cayman Islands, had his two-year
sentence raised to five-and-a-half years. "The sooner people from
Jamaica realize the maximum sentence they will get here for drugs, the
better," CANA quoted Graham as saying. Currently, 63 Jamaicans are
serving time in the Cayman Islands on drug offenses out of the British
colony's total prison population of 227.
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Checked-by: Patrick Henry