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Murder accused pleads guilty to curfew breaches

By PAVEL BAILEY

Tribune Staff Reporter

pbailey@tribunemedia.net

A MAN on bail for attempted murder was jailed for six months after admitting to breaching his curfew five times. 

Assistant Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain charged Jarvis Joseph, 24, with five counts of violation of bail conditions.

Levan Johnson represented the defendant.

Joseph was on release for an attempted murder charge. He and two others allegedly killed Vernal Johnson as he sat in his car on Graham Drive on August 7, 2020.

The victim drove his car to the hospital, where he was successfully treated for his injuries.

Vernal Johnson has since been sentenced to 32 years in prison after he was convicted of the 2018 murder of Rico Taylor at the El Rancho Bar on Hutchinson Street.

Joseph failed to obey his court-ordered residential curfew five times between May 13 and July 9. 

After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to six months at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.

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