Scott Hapgood

Hapgood Sues Resort Company That Owns Hotel in Anguilla [UPDATED]

Anguilla Prosecutors Seek Arrest Warrant for Scott Hapgood [UPDATE]

In Letter, Federal Legislators Urge State Dept to Press Britain on Hapgood’s Safety, Fair Treatment

Darien Friends, Public Officials Rally Around Scott Hapgood: Call for His Safety and Fair Treatment

Quarter of a Million Dollars Raised for Scott Hapgood Defense

Lawyer: Darien Man Notified by Anguillian Police of ‘Serious’ Threats Against Him

Hapgood Releases More Detailed Statement on Anguilla Incident and Arrest

Scott Hapgood Releases Statement on Incident That Led to Death of Anguillan Maintenance Man

Additional Details Released in Case of Darien Man Charged with Manslaughter in Anguilla

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Scott Hapgood and his family filed a lawsuit Monday against the owner of the Caribbean resort where Hapgood fought against a hotel employee he said assaulted and tried to rob him last April in front of his children, Hapgood’s public relations firm announced. Hapgood, charged with manslaughter in the death of the Anguila hotel employee, Kenny Mitchel, has remained in the United States, refusing to return to the island for pretrial court hearings. He has said it would be too dangerous for him to return to Anguilla, a British territory, given numerous anonymous threats against him and a lack of assurances from Anguilan authorities that he would be protected. Anguillan authorities have said they would file an arrest warrant for failure to appear in court. Extradition between the United States and the United Kingdom involves approval from both a federal judge and the U.S. Secretary of State.

Anguilla Attorney Generals Chambers Nov 12, 2019 news release re Scott Hapgood

Prosecutors in Anguila announced Tuesday morning that they will ask for a bench warrant for Scott Hapgood’s arrest for failure to appear in court Monday. Update, 8:14 a.m., Nov. 14: Statements from Tim Foy, the governor of Anguilla, and Anguilla Premier Victor Franklin have been added to the end of this article. The announcement from the Anguilla Attorney General’s Chambers called Hapgood’s stated concerns about fairness and safety “totally groundless,” and his decision not to return to Anguilla for the Nov. 11 hearing a “willful defiance of the High Court order.”

The same points made in a rally and news conference for Scott Hapgood at Darien Town Hall on Oct. 28 were made in a letter on Monday from six U.S. senators and a U.S. House member to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — security for Hapgood in Anguilla and fair and transparent treatment in the judicial process there. Hapgood, a Darien man in his 40s, is charged in April with manslaughter in Anguilla, a small Caribbean island where he was vacationing with his family. The island is part of the territory of the United Kingdom. Hapgood fought with a hotel worker who showed up at his door.

Scott Hapgood Darien Town Hall news conference Oct 28 2019

In front of Town Hall and before almost 100 friends and supporters rallying there with signs and frequent applause, elected officials on Monday repeated demands to keep Scott Hapgood, charged with manslaughter in Anguilla, safe when he’s there and treat him fairly in the judicial proceedings against him. “We want fair and transparent proceedings and safety for Scott Hapgood as he goes through this,” U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said. The judicial process on the island, a dependency of the United Kingdom, must provide him “basic safeguards of fundamental fairness,” the Connecticut senator said. All the public officials who spoke, along with one of Hapgood’s lawyers, made the same points: Anguilan officials need to keep Hapgood safe and the proceedings against him fair. Hapgood’s next pretrial hearing takes place on Nov.

A GoFundMe page created for Darien resident Scott Hapgood has raised more than $250,000 in its first week, most of the way toward its goal of $400,000. Hapgood faces a manslaughter charge in the death of a 27-year-old hotel worker in the Caribbean island of Anguilla, where the Hapgoods were vacationing in April. As of Wednesday morning, the “Team Hap” GoFundMe campaign had raised $250,928 from 518 donors. Hapgood has said a maintenance worker, later identified as Kenny Mitchel, knocked on the Hapgoods’ hotel room door dressed in uniform and said he was there to fix a broken sink, even though Hapgood had not called maintenance. Hapgood said Mr. Mitchel, armed with a knife, had demanded money, and that he was defending his family during the incident.

Scott Hapgood, the Darien man accused of manslaughter in Anguilla, spoke Tuesday about the stress he and his family have been going through since the deadly struggle in his hotel room with a man he’s said was trying to rob them. “On April 13th, my family’s life was changed forever,” he said in prepared comments at a news conference in Manhattan. The toll on his family and himself were the focus of nearly all his statements. “Since that day, we have been living a nightmare that has gradually become our reality.” In answer to a question later in the news conference, he said of his daughters, now 14 and 12, who were in the room when his struggle with the hotel employee on April 13 led to the man’s death:

“I can tell you that I’m blown away by their strength.

Scott Hapgood and his family have released a second statement (full text below) giving additional details about the circumstances surrounding the fight in the family’s hotel room that later resulted in his arrest on a charge of manslaughter in Anguilla. Anguillan authorities said that asphyxiation was the cause or one of the causes of the death of Kenny Mitchel, the hotel maintenance worker who fought with Hapgood. In the new statement, Hapgood says Mitchel was a stranger to him when Mitchel entered the room, saying he needed to fix a sink. Hapgood says he was attacked by Mitchel, who bit him (the family released a photo of Hapgood taken shortly afterward, see below). Hapgood said he fought back but did not choke Mitchel, who was later restrained by a hotel security guard.

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Gavin Scott Hapgood, the 44-year-old Darien man who was charged with manslaughter in Anguilla earlier this month, released a statement through a public relations firm saying that he was “attacked without warning” by the man who died in the confrontation with him. The maintenance worker, identified by law enforcement authorities as Kenny Mitchel, a Dominica native, demanded money and was armed, according to Hapgood’s statement, which was made directly by Kelcey Kintner, a member of the public relations firm Red Banyan and a spokeswoman for the family. Mitchel showed up, in uniform, at the hotel room where Hapgood and his family were staying, saying he was there to fix a broken sink, even though Hapgood never called maintenance, contrary to reports online. The maintenance worker “carried out [a] sudden, violent attack on the family,” according to the statement. A Royal Anguilan Police Force spokesman recently told Associated Press that other members of Hapgood’s family were there when the violence took place.

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Police in Anguilla who have charged Darien resident Gavin Scott Hapgood with manslaughter don’t yet have a motive for the killing of Kevin Mitchel in Hapgood’s hotel room on April 13, but they’ve released some additional details about the case, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday. Hapgood’s young daughters were in the hotel room when Mitchel died from “positional asphyxia,” police spokesman Randy Dick told the AP. According to the news service, “It is unclear how the 27-year-old Mitchel ended up in Hapgood’s hotel room at the upscale Malliouhana resort where he worked.” —See also: “Darienite Gavin Scott Hapgood Charged With Manslaughter in Anguilla” (April 20)

Tensions have been high in Anguilla since news of the homicide broke last week, with comments on social media “both from Anguillans demanding justice for Mitchel and from foreigners who regularly visit the island, with some saying the general anger directed at tourists frightened them.” The Anguillian newspaper editorialized that residents of the nation, a British territory with less than 15,000 people, should keep calm and let law enforcement authorities do their jobs as a matter of justice.