Antigua: Man who shot employee in the mouth gets four years
A contractor in Antigua and Barbuda will be spending the next four years in His Majesty’s Prison for shooting one of his employees in the mouth.
His sentence is less than 12 per cent of the maximum sentence for such a severe offence (35 years).
The incident occurred on March 25, 2018, when the victim, James Elliot, failed to return a work phone to his boss, Desbones St John, because of monies owed to him.
Elliot and other contractor employees quit when he refused to pay them.
On the day of the shooting, the accused slammed Elliot into a truck, placed his firearm near his mouth and fired the gun.
The bullet went through the victim’s lips, damaged the right side of his jaw and remained lodged in his head.
Elliot also lost some of his teeth and a part of his tongue and is paralysed on one side of his face.
Elliot was rushed to the hospital by a friend while St John went to the police and told them that a friend of his had been shot and accused someone else of being the perpetrator.
The accused maintained that the incident was a mere accident, but a jury did not agree.
St John was found guilty of shooting with intent to murder in November 2022.
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