The Court of Appeal has quashed the five year prison sentence of a woman convicted of stealing and imposed a three year sentence instead.
Well, blow me down. Here in The Bahamas we have murderers walking the streets, after being acquitted or released on bail by incompetent or corrupt judges, while petty thieves get sentenced to years in jail.
Something’s wrong with this picture.
Anastacia Moree, 32, of Buttonwood Avenue, was convicted on six counts of stealing by reason of employment.
On five of the counts, Moree had been sentenced to three months imprisonment and on one of the counts she was sentenced to three years.
The sentences were to run consecutively.
The appellate court found that the magistrate, obviously ignorant and/or incompetent, had gone beyond the sentencing limit in imposing the sentences on Moree, a mother of three.
The appellate imposed a three-year sentence instead and also ordered that Moree receive counselling.
Meanwhile, another murderer was released by the Supreme Court.
