Kevin Dacosta Cadogan Acquitted in Endangerment Case of Bank Account Holder

Kevin Dacosta Cadogan has been found not guilty of endangering the life of the female pensioner whose bank account he emptied 13 years ago.

The nine-member jury delivered the unanimous verdict in the No. 4 Supreme Court on Friday evening after almost three hours of deliberation.

Cadogan, of Arthur Seat, St Thomas, was charged with unlawfully and maliciously engaging in conduct which placed an elderly Bank of Nova Scotia client in danger of death or serious bodily harm on August 24, 2011.

It was the State’s case presented by Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions Alliston Seale SC and State Counsel Paul Prescod that the former bank employee had been part of a plan that left the account holder nursing a gunshot wound inflicted by a man hired by Cadogan and his accomplice after they stole her

money.

In his defence, Cadogan said his intention was always to put the funds back into the client’s account and he did not know of any plot to endanger the woman until his accomplice told him that he had taken another man to the woman’s house to “scare” her. He said he was young at the time and had believed the “magical plan” of his accomplice to steal the money, invest it, make quick profits and return the funds without anyone discovering the money missing. Cadogan also pointed to his decision to go to the woman’s house and leave a note with his number, and his confession that he had stolen her money when she contacted him as evidence of his intention to give back the money and not cause her any harm.

Defence attorney Sade Harris represented Cadogan.

Madam Justice Laurie-Ann Smith-Bovell thanked the jury before she dismissed them.

Meanwhile, Cadogan returned to Dodds Prison where he is serving his sentence for the theft.