By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune News Editor
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
THE Privy Council has asked the Court of Appeal to re-sentence a woman found guilty of conspiracy with others to murder O’Neil Marshall.
However, the judges rejected the woman’s request to overturn her guilty conviction.
Marshall was murdered sometime between April 30, 2016, and May 1, 2016, while he was in a witness protection programme to give evidence in a murder trial involving a notorious gang leader.
During her police interview, Caryn Moss admitted she knew Marshall and was aware of a plot to murder him. She alleged three people approached her around December 2025 to be involved in the plot.
Although she said she let Marshall know the men were looking for him, she did not end contact with the men.
She said on April 30, 2016, one of the men who approached her to kill Marshall dropped her at the airport to pick up office keys. She said during the drive, he threatened her. She said the man devised a plan that would allow him to kill Marshall.
As fulfilment of the plan, she took Marshall to the end of a dead-end road where he was eventually killed.
She told police she knew he would be killed once she took him through Yorkshire Street.
She was found guilty in the Supreme Court. Both the Court of Appeal and the Privy Council upheld her conviction.
However, the Privy Council’s judges found that lower courts should have considered the “degree of coercion” the woman experienced in acting the way she did.
The board noted there was evidence the woman had been subjected to a death threat which she thought was legitimate.
“It ought to have been considered either as an extenuating circumstance potentially justifying a sentence outside the range of 30-60 years’ imprisonment or as an additional mitigating factor to be taken into account in determining where this case fell within that range,” the board wrote.
Accordingly, the Court of Appeal is expected to consider the matter and give the woman a shorter sentence.
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