Calling on the name of JESUS Works to STOP Robber says victim

Wilkie Arthur

Freelance Court Reporter

#TurksandCaicos, August 5, 2023 – An interesting chain of events unraveled in a landmark gun case, covered in early July, where a man charged with illegal firearms possession and who was caught by the person he tried to rob, was stopped and is now incarcerated under new, tougher gun laws.

The matter had been adjourned on several occasions after the accused ROUDELIN DORSAINVIL pleaded guilty to all the charges he was facing.   However, as the Supreme Court closed for its Summer break, the case of the Haitian man wrapped up.

Some of the important facts and details of the case are the convict had an accomplice that got away according to the victim witness.  During the robbery, the robbers tried to take more than what they already stolen.  They pointed the loaded gun at Wisland Mesidort and demanded his money; Mesidort had just received his salary.

This attempt was unsuccessful and the defendant and his unknown/unnamed accomplices then took off in the surrounding bush.  They were chased, and when the defendant saw they were being chased by the very ones they had just robbed, he stopped to discharge his firearm but thankfully no one was hit or injured.

Mr. Mesidort said, ROUDELIN DORSAINVIL then saw they were still being chased after the single shot, so he pointed the gun again and “this time I said In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, I block the gun.”

Despite pressing the trigger a few more times, according to the witness, the gun never fired.  It was jammed, he said.

When the now convicted Dorsainvil stopped to reload the gun, he removed the magazine, checked it out and put the magazine back.  He pointed it and tried shooting again and it still didn’t work.

Miraculously, the witness said the armed robber then put his hand into his pocket and gave back two of the stolen envelopes.

“The phone had dropped and I picked it up while we were running.  I asked him for the third envelope…. We wrestled him and held him down until police arrived.”

Dorsainvil, plead guilty and became the first person convicted under the new stiffer mandatory prison time for gun passion; he got 12 years in HMP.  He was charged with:  Carrying a Black and Silver Ruger 9mm pistol; Carrying 10 rounds of ammunition for the said 9mm pistol; Discharging Firearm; Discharging ammunition and Robbery at Gardenia Way, in Grace Bay, Providenciales.

The matter was before newly appointed His Lordship, Chris Selochan. Justice Selochan was the first, on the TCI bench to passed sentence under the new firearm amendment ordinance and he did so on 31st July 2023.

All his sentences are ordered to run concurrently.

He was represented by Ashwood Forbes, Senior Defence Counsel.