{
  "id": 13378047,
  "title": "COSTLY WAIT - 15-month delay for trial transcript derails Crown’s sentence appeal for missionaries’ killer",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/10/costly-wait-15-month-delay-for-trial-transcript-derails-crowns",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-10T05:06:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Jamaica Gleaner",
    "slug": "jamaica-gleaner",
    "url": "http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20261010/costly-wait-15-month-delay-trial-transcript-derails-crowns-sentence-appeal"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A 15-month transcript delay has cost the Crown its chance to challenge the 26-year minimum term before parole imposed on Andre Thomas for the 2016 killing of two American missionaries in St Mary. The Court of Appeal last month ruled that the Crown’s appeal against the sentence was statute-barred because it was not heard within the 12 months prescribed by law. The court also rejected a subsequent…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}