Left out

Cheryl Belgrave-Webb, mother of Campus Trendz victim Nikita Belgrave, with Belgrave's four-year-old daugher Jaliyah Webb remembering their lost loved one.

By Anesta Henry | Sun, August 19, 2012 - 12:11 AM

SOME FAMILY MEMBERS of the victims of the Campus Trendz tragedy have expressed disappointment that they had to hear of the High Court’s sentencing of the killer through the media.

At least one felt they should have been notified of the sentencing date for 22-year-old Renaldo Anderson Alleyne who, last Wednesday, was sent to prison on six concurrent life sentences for killing Pearl Cornelius, Shanna Griffith, Kellisha Olliviere, Tiffany Harding, Nikita Belgrave and Kelly-Ann Welch when he firebombed the Tudor Street, Bridgetown boutique on September 3, 2010.

Griffith’s father Stanley Phillips told the SUNDAY SUN he felt disrespected and insulted by the judicial system because it did not notify him and other relatives about the sentencing.

“They could have showed you a little respect and called you for the sentencing,” said a visibly upset Phillips, “even if you had to stand on the sidewalk outside the courthouse. The law or the judicial system just took it upon themselves to do things how they wanted to.

Please read the full story in today’s SUNDAY SUN, or in the eNATION edition.

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Posted by Frank Husbands 9 months ago: If they were following the case they would have known the date.These people here crying foul should have been in court and made a contribution to the bench prior to sentencing.An attorney keeps coming forward claiming that a day of significance should be established in memory of the tragedy that took the lives of six persons in a robbery arson attack. I would take it that said attorney should have make sure that the victims relatives were at the sentencing and be allowed to address the court before sentencing.
Today in Barbados it is all about knee jerk reactions,busy bodies jumping on band wagons and grand standing,there seems to be no longer any sincerity out there anymore.

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Posted by Kenneth King 9 months ago: To those parents whose children had suffered under the hands of the coward who will never see the lights of the outside world, now the law has spoken and justice served. I know you are upset about not being notified but still it was in the hands of the law to bring this menace of society to justice. It cannot bring those wonderful kids back but at lease the culprit was apprehended and sits in prison have a lot of years to reflect on his ignorance and may the lord have mercy on his soul. It was also the prosecution to notify you by letter as the decision were eminent. I hope you come to a closure of that fatal day as you received the news, maybe it was a mistake but who knows what might have happened if some angry member attack him being under state custody could have been a another story making even more sadness to the case, giving him rights to prosecute or even sue; who knows.