Canadian media over the last few days.

Justis Smith walked free after Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux directed the jury to find the 20-year-old Pembroke man not guilty of premeditated murder.

And shortly after, Canadian television and radio began flashing the decision across the country.

Throughout the night and yesterday, the story continued to make the headlines as Canada began digesting the latest twist in the saga that had lasted since the Belleville, Ontario teenager was killed on July 3, 1996.

Reporters from two Canadian daily newspapers and a nationwide agency had followed the three-and-a-half week trial, and other media focused on Bermuda as the case ended.

Talk shows dissected the ruling into the night and early yesterday, the case was still making the news on the breakfast television shows.