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Father of Murdered Teen Jailed Over Unpaid Compensation in Fatal Crash
The father of a murdered 15-year-old girl has been sentenced to 24 months in prison for failing to pay court-ordered compensation related to a deadly traffic accident.
Claude Steadroy James, whose daughter Achazia James was found brutally killed on Runway Beach in August 2024, appeared before Justice Tunde Bakre on Thursday. He broke down in court, citing emotional and financial hardship following his daughter’s death as the reason for his non-payment.
James had been ordered to pay $15,000 in compensation and a $4,000 fine after being convicted in June 2024 of causing death by dangerous driving. The victim, Elba Perez, a woman in her 60s, died after sustaining severe injuries in a crash on Joseph Lane in 2021.
Despite pleading for leniency and recounting failed efforts to meet the payments, including visits to court and requests for extensions, the judge enforced the default prison term set at sentencing.
Achazia’s death, marked by multiple chop wounds and a severed hand, remains under investigation.
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This is awful.
Wow!!!
Soooo if u lock him up now he won’t have to pay the money anymore……
damn. this feels incredibly harsh. i think in cases like this there should be room for judicial discretion when the non payment is due to genuine inability rather than willful defiance. The court could have shown more compassion in my opinion. Punishing him this way just adds to his pain and doesnt feel like real justice . Rip to both ladies 🕊️ such a sad situation
When Prarabha comes knocking, the die has already been cast.
Life really rough…this man loses his child and now this?
How he end up in jail over money when he still grieving?
This story real tragic from every angle.
a crime is a child losing a child or not
Butso call got their time push back instead of jail an that so call person have ways an means to pay after refusing to give that person their money 🤔
Meathead stop your bs excuses about your daughter died and you’ve fallen on hard times. You damn well know u weren’t feeding that child. That’s why certain lifestyles were exhibited.
Now if you didn’t have all those damn children with so many women you’d have been able to make small payments. It’s time y’all go court with sensible lies and stop the waste lies.
You think judges stupid?
Yes, I think they are! Maybe the Hispanic population can feel better now.
Stop play with Haitians. You still have to pay that money when you get out
He should have hired the same lawyer that represented Stewart Young, in the Jack Straw case
Double whammy! Still unsolved murder of his daughter and now jailed for his inability to pay fine in a fatal crash accident. When it rains, it pours.
Look like u miss the whole story.
WAW. What did i just read. Hmmm . There are so many things wrong with this story. I dont know what to say. I just keep reading it over. Waw
WAW. What did i just read. Hmmm . There are so many things wrong with this story. I dont know what to say. I just keep reading it over. Waw
WHAT THE HELL…! @LUKA JOHNSON & AUDLEY PHILLIP: …ORDERED COMPENSATION: …NO ALTERNATIVE SENTENCE? …WHO GOT IT WRONG: …JUDGE OR REPORTER…?
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WHAMMY…?
DOUBLE: ‘…FINE AND COMPENSATION: …GRIEF OF DAUGHTER’S MURDER: COULD MAKE IT A ‘…TRIPPLE WHAMMY.’
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WELL,
JUST GOT ON TO READ THAT WHICH SEEMED TO BE:
(a) ‘…TOTAL IGNORANCE: and
(b) …WANT OF KNOWLEDGE.’
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DEFAULTING ON FINE OF EC$4, 000:
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NOW:
IN KEEPING AWAY FROM ‘…CONTEMPT OF COURT,’ IT SHALL BE SAID THAT THE JUDGE: ‘…HIS LORDSHIP, JUSTICE TUNDE ABIOLA BAKRE (Pronounced Bacree)’ KNOWS THE DIFFERENCE: between
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(i) ‘…COURT-ORDERED COMPENSATION (To be paid to deceased family): and
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(ii) …A ‘…COURT-IMPOSED FINE (To be paid into Government Treasury).’
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READERS UNDERSTANDING:
READERS SHALL UNDERSTAND THAT THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ‘…AN ALTERNATIVE PUNISHMENT’ FOR JUDICIALLY-MADE CIVIL ORDERS.’
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THE COMPENSATION SUM OF ‘…EC$15,000,’ HAS NOT BEEN THE RESULT OF ‘…CIVIL LITIGATION’ BY ANY LITIGANT AGAINST THE ACCUSED.’
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CRIMINAL TRIAL JUDGES:
SUCH, WITHIN THE DISCRETION OF ‘…CRIMINAL TRIAL JUDGES,’
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SUCH ORDERED SUM SHALL BE PAID TO THE ‘…SURVIVORS.’
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JAIL OR NO JAIL:
NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES TO BE PAID, IT SHALL BE PAID BY THE ‘…ACCUSED,’ UNDER CONVICTION OF ‘…CAUSING DEATH BY DANGEROUS DRIVING.’
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NOW:
IT IS A ‘…CONTEMPT OF COURT’ WHEN ‘…COURT ORDERS’ ARE NOT OBEYED.
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COMMITTAL ORDERS:
WHEN NO SUCH PAYMENTS WERE PAID, THE AGGRIEVED MAY APPLY TO THE ‘COURT’ TO CAUSE THE ‘…DEFAULTING ACCUSED’ TO BE ‘…COMMITTED TO PRISON.’
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PUNISHMENT OF COURT
SUCH HAS BEEN THE ‘…IMPOSABLE PUNISHMENT’ BY COURTS ON ‘DEFAULTERS’ FOR THEIR
‘…NON-COMPLIANCE’ WITH THE ‘…ORDER OF THE COURT.’
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NON-PAYMENT OF FINE:…JUDICIAL TROUBLES:
IN THE INSTANT CASE, IT HAS BEEN THE ‘…NON-PAYMENT OF THE FINE AND NOT THE ‘…COMPENSATION’ THAT HAS CAUSED THE ‘…JUDICIAL TROUBLES’ OF THE ‘…INDIGENT ACCUSED.
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LONG AND HARSH:
THE JUDICIALLY-ORDERED ‘…24-MONTHS OF COMMITTAL TO PRISON,’ though appears
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(a) ‘…LENGTHY AND HARSH,’ SUCH WAS THE ‘…ALTERNATIVE SENTENCE’ FOR DEFAULTING ON PAYING THE FINE OF EC$4, 000: for
(b) …THE DRIVING OFFENCE-CAUSING DEATH BY DANGEROUS DRIVING.’
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MORE FINANCIAL/JAIL PREDICAMENTS
THE COMMITTED, IS STILL FACED WITH PAYING THE ‘…COMPENSATION OF EC$ 15, 000′ TO THE SURVIVING RELATIVES OF THE DECEASED.’
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COMMITTAL ORDER:
WHEN RELEASED FROM HIS MAJESTY’S PRISON (HMP), AND HAD A REASONABLE TIME TO EARN AND PAY THE ‘…ORDERED COMPENSATION,’ IN DEFAULT, ‘…AN APPLICATION FOR A ‘…COMMITAL ORDER’ COULD SEE HIM BACK AT ‘…HMP.’
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NO END IN SIGHT FOR THE INDIGENT ACCUSED.
FOR, HE STILL HAS TO PAY THE ‘…COMPENSATION’ SO ORDERED.
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WHAT THE HELL…! AVOID ‘…CONTEMPT OF COURT: …DRIVE CAREFULLY.
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WHAT THE HELL…! …SENSATIONAL HEADLINE: …FATHER OF MURDERED TEEN JAILED…?
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SENSATIONALISM OF THE HIGHEST ORDER, BY THE NEWS STORY WRITER.
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QUESTION:
WHAT IS THIS TO DO: with
(a) ‘…CAUSING DEATH BY DANGEROUS DRIVING: and
(b) …HIS LORDSHIP, JUSTICE TUNDE ADEMOLA BAKRE?’
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WHAT THE HELL…!
SENSATIONALIZE EVERY FOLLOWER OF ‘ANR.’
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KEEP EVERYONE’S INTEREST.
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Oh please he wasn’t feeding his daughter , he very lie ……. he hit the lady way before his daughter was murdered so what exactly is his excuse? Wasteman he be . Send his ass jail for real. He just doesn’t want to pay ….imagine killing the lady and only paying 15,000
@dadli love – There is an option for persons who can’t afford to pay the fine. It’s called prison…It’s free for them. Paid for by you and me.
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