A police witness told a Supreme Court jury yesterday that he received several calls from two numbers that he discovered were connected to a paralegal who has been charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

The trial of Eron Hill — who was charged with three counts of attempting to pervert the course of public justice through social-media posts made between October 29 and November 30, 2023 — began with Detective Constable Michael Redfern taking the stand.

Mr Hill was also charged with six offences under the Electronic Communications Act, including that he made “grossly offensive” posts on social media about police officers and that he caused one officer’s phone number to repeatedly ring to harass him.

Constable Redfern told the court that he was in Canada on holiday in October 2023 when he noticed a WhatsApp alert and two calls on his police-issued phone from a Bermuda number that he did not recognise.

“But what caught my attention was the profile picture,” he told the court.

He said the photograph depicted him and another police officer together with the words “Corrupt Bermuda Police” as well as his name and that of another police officer.

He said: “I remembered it like it was yesterday.”

Later that day, the witness said he received a mobile-to-mobile call and a WhatsApp call from another Bermuda number, which he also did not recognise. He said he did not answer any of the calls that day.

On his return to Bermuda, Mr Redfern said, he investigated and realised one of the numbers was attached to an e-mail that he received from the defendant earlier that year.

Mr Redfern said that the e-mail that he received from Mr Hill involved information regarding a matter that is before the court.

The witness told the court that in November 2023, he also discovered that the WhatsApp photograph of the first number that rang his phone the month before had been updated.

He told the court that he recognised one of the people in the updated photograph as Mr Hill.

The trial before Acting Puisne Judge Paul Doherty continues.

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