A former government senator has been remanded after being convicted this afternoon of causing the death of a football star.

After two hours of deliberation, a Supreme Court jury unanimously found Curtis Richardson guilty of causing the death of Marco Warren by driving without due care and attention.

The incident happened in the early hours of May 14, 2023 near the intersection of Trinity Church Road and North Shore Road in Hamilton Parish.

Richardson, 52, denied the offence after being charged about six months later.

The court heard Mr Warren was walking home from Bailey’s Bay Cricket Club in Hamilton Parish at about 3am.

Multiple witnesses and CCTV footage observed Mr Warren to be uneasy on his feet while at the club and walking along North Shore Road, suggesting he had been intoxicated.

He was last seen wearing a dark sweatshirt with white print and dark pants.

Carrington Mahoney, for the Crown, suggested Mr Warren was walking west in the eastbound lane of North Shore Road when Richardson struck him with his taxi.

Mackie Crane testified that he rode behind Richardson and observed what he thought was a “trash bag” on the side of the road.

He then saw Richardson by Bay Corner and asked if he saw the object, which he later learnt was Mr Warren.

Rache Hodsoll told the court Richardson flagged her down a short time later and asked for her assistance.

The nurse said Mr Warren had “very laboured breathing” while Richardson seemed “quite standoffish” and denied knowing what had happened.

Police and an ambulance arrived to take Mr Warren to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Richardson gave a voluntary police statement, where he told officers he thought he saw a trash can that night and swerved to avoid contact.

Police officers looked at CCTV footage and vehicles potentially involved, reviewed 911 call logs and examined the area.

An autopsy conducted by Michael Pickup noted “significant” internal injuries in Mr Warren’s body.

These injuries included multiple fractures to his pelvis and ribs, lacerations to the liver, spleen and bladder, tears to the pancreas and vessels in the left kidney and almost three litres of internal haemorrhaging — about half the average level of blood in an adult body.

Dr Pickup said the injuries likely came from a large, flat-fronted vehicle travelling at speeds as low as 40km/h.

The pathologist added there were no tyre marks on Mr Warren’s body, but did find a scuff mark on his sweatshirt.

Glenn Luben, a traffic collision expert and lecturer from Florida, said the Bermuda Police Service contacted him in October 2023.

Mr Luben investigated the crash site, two vehicles seen during the time of the incident, including Richardson’s, police evidence and Mr Warren’s body.

He noted marks across Mr Warren’s chest that he said matched the pattern of the undercarriage of Richardson’s taxi, as well as marks above the left knee on the body and trouser leg that matched the taxi’s bumper.

Mr Luben added that there was sufficient lighting in the road at the time with a clear, straight view and no trash bags visible from the westbound lane.

He concluded that Richardson’s taxi was the vehicle that struck Mr Warren and that an experienced and unimpaired driver “could have or would have taken action”.

Despite this, Victoria Greening, for the defence, challenged the expert’s impartiality and suggested he was directed by police to link her client’s vehicle to Mr Warren’s death.

She further suggested he failed to consider the possibility of a second vehicle and misattributed certain marks, injuries and statements, suggesting his investigation was flawed and incomplete.

Meanwhile, Philip Lewis, a traffic collision consultant, told the court he conducted his own investigation into the incident and concluded Mr Warren was “more than likely” hit twice.

He pointed to a “significant injury” on Mr Warren’s right upper leg that he said did not reflect a single collision.

He added that, because there were no lower leg injuries on his body and no dents on Richardson’s taxi, Mr Warren likely was not standing when he was struck.

Mr Lewis suggested there was “no contact between [Richardson’s] vehicle and the deceased,” though he later suggested the front left bumper may have struck him.

He also noted a report from witness Renée Wallace of a Mazda-style “ghost vehicle”, so-called because it was not seen by anyone else, spotted travelling at a high rate of speed.

Mr Mahoney cast doubt on Mr Lewis’s analysis, suggesting he failed to do his due diligence in finding all the necessary evidence and ignoring findings that did not align with his theory.

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