A woman convicted of participating in a plot to kill a witness has had her murder conspiracy conviction upheld.
However, her 35-year sentence for the crime has been quashed.
Caryn Moss played a key role in the murder of O’Neil Marshall, days before his scheduled testimony against a notorious gang leader.
Moss confessed to luring Marshall, who was in the witness protection programme, to his death.
She picked him up and then left him in a car with the inside door handles removed and the child safety locks engaged while she went to her god parents’ home.
Moss said she heard multiple gunshots while inside the house. She later walked home after collecting spent bullet casings.
Marshall’s bullet-riddled body was found in a partially burned car on May 1, 2016.
Investigators questioned Moss about the murder, as she was the last person who had phoned him.
Moss admitted that she was enlisted to set up her friend by three notorious gangsters: Ian “Irie” Porter, Ramon “Razor” Sweeting, and Jamaric “Big Meech” Green, who offered to pay her $200,000.
It’s unclear if she ever got the blood money.
Police also charged Porter, Sweeting and Green with the murder conspiracy but the charges against them were dropped before the trial. Since then, they were all murdered.
Moss claimed that she knew that if she didn’t go along with their plan, she would have been killed.
However, the Privy Council found that this did not entitle her to use the defense of duress.
Still, the country’s highest court said the coercion should have been considered in sentencing.
As a result, the Privy Council ordered the Court of Appeal to hand down a reduced sentence.
Copyright Bahamas Court News 2023
