Six Court Appearances Later, The Chief Magistrate Calls DPP’s Lack Of Disclosure “Disappointing” In Alleged MDMA Importation Case

By Alric Lindsay

Today, August 11, 2026, the Cayman Islands Summary Court gave Crown Counsel from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions a final seven days to serve the full forensic download from a mobile phone at the centre of an alleged drug-importation case against Malik Darel Williams and Christy Amanda Brown, after defence counsels Amelia Fosuhene and Greg Walcolm said the evidence DPP Crown Counsel says it relies on had never been served.

Brown and Williams each face allegations of conspiracy to import a controlled drug and being concerned in the importation of a controlled drug, the drugs named being MDMA (methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or “ecstasy”) and ganja.

DPP Crown counsel told the Chief Magistrate that telephone evidence supported the charge of being concerned in the importation of MDMA, and that the material was extensive. Defence counsel Walcolm replied that the full forensic evidence — the download from the phone — had not in fact been served on the defence; what had been provided in the disclosure bundle were some WhatsApp communications, which the defence had understood to be the extent of it.

Defence counsel Fosuhene added that when they first received the papers they had written to the DPP asking specifically what the evidence against the client was and had received no substantive answer, and that further material had been sent only at about 9:30 this morning.

The Chief Magistrate described the situation as “disappointing” since this was the sixth court appearance for the matter, and it was only now emerging that the full forensic examination of the phone had not been served by the DPP on defence counsels.

The Chief Magistrate ordered DPP Crown Counsel to serve full disclosure of the forensics within seven days — by August 18 — and directed that the downloads be provided specifically and in a legible form so that the defence could review them.  The Chief Magistrate listed the matter for election and pleas on September 8, when both Brown and Williams are to return.