Nadisha Beckford - Bahamas Court News https://bahamascourtnews.com Providing comprehensive coverage of court cases Wed, 26 Jul 2023 23:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Woman convicted of lover’s murder loses appeal https://bahamascourtnews.com/woman-convicted-of-lovers-murder-loses-appeal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=woman-convicted-of-lovers-murder-loses-appeal Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:59:59 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=6194 A woman convicted of fatally stabbing her lesbian lover has lost her appeal. Nadisha Beckford is serving 42 years in prison after a jury found her guilty of murdering Lakeisha Mackey in February 2021. Beckford unsuccessfully argued that the judge erred by admitting an audio recording in which she justified the stabbing and that her […]

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]]> Woman gets 42 years for murder of lover https://bahamascourtnews.com/woman-gets-42-years-for-murder-of-lover/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=woman-gets-42-years-for-murder-of-lover Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:32:46 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5694 NASSAU- A Jamaican woman on Tuesday was sentenced to 42 years in prison for the murder of her girlfriend. Nadisha Beckford, 34, claimed that she entitled to take Lakeisha Mackey’s life because she was acting in self-defense. A jury convicted her of the February 2021 murder in the parking lot of the Mayfair Hotel after […]

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]]> Woman convicted of murder of girlfriend https://bahamascourtnews.com/woman-convicted-of-murder-of-girlfriend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=woman-convicted-of-murder-of-girlfriend Wed, 29 Jun 2022 08:52:35 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5374 NASSAU- A Jamaican woman faces up to 60 years in prison after a jury rejected her claim that she killed her girlfriend in self-defense. Nadisha Beckford, 34, was on Wednesday unanimously convicted of the murder of 31-year-old Lakeisha Mackey. Beckford, who is in the country on a spousal permit, returns to court in September for […]

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]]> Jamaican woman denies fatal stabbing https://bahamascourtnews.com/jamaican-woman-denies-fatal-stabbing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jamaican-woman-denies-fatal-stabbing Sat, 11 Dec 2021 07:29:32 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=4701 NASSAU- A Jamaican woman who tried to clear her name on Facebook after a fatal stabbing has denied a murder charge. Nadisha Marshalle Beckford, 33, of Marshall Road, pleaded not guilty to the February 20 murder of her former girlfriend Lakeisha Mackey at her arraignment in the Supreme Court. Beckford is being held without bail […]

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