Former Police Commissioner Colin Coxall says Bermuda's new cold case team and DNA database offer the perfect opportunity to push again for justice in the notorious Rebecca Middleton murder case.

Mr. Coxall, who headed the Police when the 17-year-old tourist was killed in 1996, says the case was the worst miscarriage of justice of his career.

He's adamant that it should have been continuously reviewed rather than "shamefully abandoned" after the botched prosecution of two suspects.

Now he's spoken out over news that the new team will not be looking afresh at the Middleton case, owing to an archaic legal rule that's long been abolished in England.

In an in-depth interview inside today's edition of The Royal Gazette, he explains how a recent success in a similar case there illustrates why the Bermuda Police should never give up.

"I would love it if this team picked up this case, started afresh with it and put it through a fresh forensic review of the evidence and came to a conclusion," he said.

"I guess they would be happy to do it, but I think the people in authority might be trying to hide that case. I feel the people in Bermuda were trying to sweep that case under the carpet. They should not be doing that."

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