Angel Joseph
Age 2529 Aug 2018
Potters Vllage, Antigua (Antigua And Barbuda)
Stabbed
Angel was stabbed by her abusive partner.
Timothy Jackman, 21, charged for murder of transgender lover
Timothy Jackman, 21, of Potters village has been charged with the murder of Arnal “Angel” Joseph, a 25-year-old transgender woman of Potters village.
This offence occurred on Wednesday, August 29 in Potters village, Antigua.
He is expected to appear in the St John’s Magistrate court on Monday, September 3 to answer to the charge.
Another transgender woman said she had told Angel, her best friend, to leave her abusive lover.
In 2020 Timothy Jackman was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 11 years and nine months in prison.
However, he was unexpectedly released - which appears to have been in error - on 3rd July 2024. As of August 2024 he remains at liberty.
A man convicted of killing his transgender partner in 2018 is temporarily free after his lawyer, Wendel Alexander, filed a constitutional motion to prevent his rearrest.
Timothy Jackman was released from Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) on July 3, ahead of his original 11 years and nine months sentence for the manslaughter of 25-year-old Angel Joseph.
Jackman, now 27, was found guilty in 2020 after Joseph died from a stab wound to the neck during a dispute at their Potters home on August 29, 2018.
Shortly after Jackman’s release, the prison claimed it was an “error” and sought to reincarcerate him, stating he had been released two years early.
Jackman received a card stating his release date as July 3, 2024. Prior to his release, prison officers even requested his brother bring him a change of clothes, only to seek his rearrest days later.
According to court transcripts, the sentencing judge Justice Ann-Marie Smith made what Alexander called a “mathematical error” when she calculated Jackman’s sentence four years ago.
“She did calculate the sentence of 112 months but when you divide 112 months into 12, you come up to about nine years and three months. But for whatever reason, she had sentenced Timothy Jackman to 11 years and nine months,” the lawyer said.
According to Alexander, had Jackman not been supposedly released early, he would have spent longer behind bars than he’d been sentenced to.
The injunction application was heard Thursday morning but was adjourned until August 15 to give the Office of the Attorney General enough time to file an affidavit in reply. In the meantime, the court asked that Jackman not be rearrested before the next hearing.
Angel's murder was not recorded on the official Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDoR) memorial list released by Transgender Europe (TGEU) in November 2018.
https://antiguaobserver.com/man-who-killed-transgender-partner-temporarily-free/
https://antiguanewsroom.com/jackman-gets-11-years-for-killing-transgender-lover/
https://caribbeannewsservice.com/timothy-jackman-21-charged-for-murder-of-transgender-lover/
