Akeem Hopkinson found guilty of murder
Akeem Hopkinson has been found guilty of the April 2021 murder of Catherine Pickering.
A 10-member jury convicted him today, Tuesday, February 25, after approximately three hours of deliberations.
He was found guilty on all four charges: murder, robbery, possession of a firearm with intent to endanger lives, and possession of a prohibited weapon.
He is scheduled to return to court on March 7, 2025, for mitigation, at which point the defence will present factors that may lessen the severity of a sentence.
He is expected to be sentenced later this month. The case was heard at the High Court before Judge Rajiv Persad, with Hopkinson represented by Phoenix Law.
More details will follow in subsequent reports.
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Justice have been served. Learn to work for what you want next time around.
Did the DPP get in a foreign lawyer to prosecute this one for her?
That’s not the Liberty guy at Pier Park? I realized for months he is MIA.
Your dry scalp ass need to get your facts straight. Ppl like alyo private part need to burn!
he up balo doing time for a gun charge.. he was scared after the gun man pull a gun on kamni up the ghut
Wow dpp actually get a W
Unbelievable
I don’t know if to feel happy or flabbergasted
I guess the jurors can finally come together when it’s an old lady but anyone else will be not guilty regardless of police evidence lol
Anyways at least y’all completely heartless….yet….
What is so funny about that?! Nothing funny about what happened or what you said. Nothing.
WE GOT PEOPLE WAITING ON HIS BALZ FOR THEIR PITBULLZ THAT ENJOYS THEM BARBECUED / SO LETS GET THIS PROCESS STARTED TO CONTROL THE BREEDING OF THE WANNABE GANSTERS , WHO THINK THAT THEY CAN GO AROUND KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE AND COME BACK ON THE STREET AND GAIN BRAGGING RIGHTS , THOSE WHO IS SYMPATHETIC TO THESE COLDBLOODED EXECUTION STYLE KILLERS IS JUST AS SICK IN THEIR MINDS JUST LIKE THE KILLERS
The man didn’t rape anyone. Castrate a man for being an accidental shooter murderer? You can’t tell that boy special needs?
the dpp didn’t lose!? She want that new office lol. Great job!
It’s been a long time coming. No one deserves to be shot and killed. That poor woman certainly did not deserve to be unalived by these thieves in the manner they did. She nor her daughter were hurting anyone. They were targeted in a crime of opportunity after a hards days work.
These menace to society would rather rob and kill than finding a job and make an honest living.
I don’t know what mitigation factor(s) the defense would come up with, but as far as I am concern there are none.
Nothing they can say in his defense that can mitigate the fact that Catherine Pickering is no longer here because they attempted to rob her of money but ended up robbing her of her life. Nothing.
The judge needs to throw the book at him. It’s a shame we no longer have the death penalty in this country, because he deserves it.
As such, the next best thing is to lock him up for the rest of his natural life. I hope the family will weigh in on this at his sentencing. He does not deserve to ever live among decent people again.
Now, many of us have criticized the DPP office for failing to win convictions including myself. I want to give them credit for bringing about this conviction.
I hope the judge does the right thing here after all is said and done and lock this man up forever so that Catherine Pickering could finally rest in peace with her killer behind bars forever.
This ain’t full Justice fam, he was just a pawn. The Kingpin of the plan done get off couple weeks back.
Commissioner Collins first case.
What about the others?
That F…gt that worked at big brother is who needs to be found guilty of everything, not just “robbery”. He started the ball rolling on everything. Without his role, none of this would have happened. No matter who’s found guilty of what, I cast full blame on that dude for the murder of that lady.
Yuh can’t even say he’ll get what’s coming to him up balo, cause it’s something he likes..
So true, I just think that the guy who worked for them gave them the blueprint but it was G**** who orchestrated it. He just got off because there was not anything concrete on him.
Correct!!! and EVERYBODY KNOWS IT! He got off because he was charged with the wrong charge! Hoping they pick his @$$ up and charge him again this time with something that will stick, LIKE Conspiracy!
Put the worthless ungrateful ape away for the rest of his life. The others that was involved should be put away in prison for the rest of their lives as well. How can anyone gun down an innocent woman in her home like that.
When so much pled guilty he was just wasting the courts time
oh boy, fresh meat coming
Take all the scooters away.
All these young men and women want to be hot head gangsters, no respect. There is a place for them…
S****** G**** was the ring leader, the queer dude was the inside man, and Hopkinson was the enforcer. They were many players involved in this tragic, diabolical mess.
Gr*8T may have gotten away but the lord sees and knows! He will reap what he sows. Being the eldest, he used those boys for his financial benefit and kept his hands clean, I hope they learn their lesson because he screwed you guys over!.
As for his mother, we haven’t forgotten when you lied knowing this woman was killed in her home. So we understand that apple don’t fall from the tree. This wasn’t a gang rivalry among peers, this was an innocent woman. Why couldn’t keep you quiet? So you are not exempted from the wrath. Sharp on the outside and UGLY inside. God doesn’t sleep and KARMA is real.
Young men, let this be a lesson. Don’t follow company because the ring leader is free and everyone else has fallen!
Young Black male with ties to the CARICOM,the elements of destruction here there everywhere as identical Court scenes and major players are an everyday docket .
Thieves of our future.
Am I to understand that this was a cold blooded unprovoked killing of an elderly BVslander helpless female at the hands of a Black imported male with ties to the Caricom island chain..destined to be punished with an extended stay in a hurricane proofed establishment with modern convenience and daily meals,medical and dental etc at the expense of the taxpayers of these VI.