JAILED | Halim Scatliffe urges other drug dealers to end practice
After spending a few weeks on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison for drug, and gun-related charges, Huntums Ghut resident Halim Scatliffe is urging drug dealers in the territory to consider changing their lifestyle.
“I want to advise young men like me to stop,” a remorseful Scatliffe told the court during his recent court appearance.
“I want to apologize to the court … [and] I apologize for putting my family through this,” he continued.
Scatliffe recently confessed before Magistrate Christilyn Benjamin, that a quantity of cocaine and cannabis found in his home two years ago belonged to him and that he intended to distribute it to others.
He was given a six-month-custodial sentence for possession 39 grams cannabis and another six months for possession of 18 grams cocaine.
He was slapped with another 12 month-sentence for possession of cannabis and cocaine with intent to supply.
All his sentences are to run concurrently or at the same time.
Serious September 2018 offences
Scatliffe is now awaiting further sentencing for a more recent and unrelated set of offences.
He is awaiting sentencing for carrying an unlicensed firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, common assault, threatening language, and possession of a controlled drug with intent to supply. He pleaded guilty to all those charges.
Police found more than $26,000 worth of cocaine along with a gun and ammunition in his possession back in September of this year.
During the raid, his 32-year-old common-law wife Debralee Fahie and his 58-year-old father Jerome Scatliffe were also charged on the drug-related offences.
They both pleaded not guilty and the case against them was dismissed for want of prosecution.
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Young man, you know you can do better than that thing that get you in prison, you are much better than that. God has a better plan for you. Thank Him for showing you what a mistake you made..and thanks for warning the others…hope they take it to heart and cease from destroying themselves and the lives of others.
Thuggery is no way to be a part of a civil society. It is selfish, destructive and a direct threat to our way of life. It will ruin our island worse than any hurricane.
Unless he has released names and source of the supply, in my opinion he is mamaguying. Arresting and processing these people through the system is tomfoolery if they are not pressured to give up the source of their inventory.
Some of you are too pushy, going on as if you never did anything wrong…just stay cool, let God move as He wills.
You want him to be another K—–n or what? Selling out will get him and his family killed.