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A mature student breached curfew regulations after he made a late-night visit to a friend to get help with college work.
Michael Taylor, 66 was fined $3,000 after he pleaded guilty to the offence at a remote session of Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
T...
DATE: Apr 24, 2021
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Gareth Finighan
An attempt by the prosecution to prove that an alleged drugs mule lied about a trip to Canada backfired in Supreme Court yesterday.
Ranae Furbert, 29, who has denied importation and possession with intent to supply $700,000 worth of cannabis, cannabi...
DATE: Jan 30, 2021
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Gareth Finighan
A former airport security officer accused of smuggling more than $700,000 worth of cannabis into the island claims she did not know the drugs were in her luggage when she returned to Bermuda from an overseas trip.
Ranae Furbert, from St. George’s, to...
DATE: Jan 28, 2021
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Gareth Finighan
Three Bermudian women who smuggled almost $70,000 of cocaine into Britain through “internal concealments” have been jailed.
Catara Mattie, 20, Shantori Daniels, 23, and Shaliquah Talbot, 27, were questioned by officials after arriving at Gatwick on a...
DATE: Jan 09, 2021
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Court
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Gareth Finighan
A Court of Appeal judge has called for digital recording in court cases to speed up proceedings.
Justice of Appeal Geoffrey Bell made the recommendation in a written judgment in the case of Kenneth Williams, who was convicted in Magistrates’ Court of...
DATE: Dec 29, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
Defendants are being denied a fair trial in Magistrates’ Court because of inefficiencies that cause hearings to drag on for years, it has been claimed.
Top attorney Jerome Lynch QC made the accusation during a Court of Appeal hearing yesterday into t...
DATE: Nov 19, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A group of defence lawyers yesterday launched a bid to appeal the convictions of three men jailed for murder and attempted murder.
The move came in the wake of a ruling earlier this year which deemed that the jury selection process in criminal trials...
DATE: Nov 18, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
A Bermudian man who lived in the US smuggled gun parts into the island concealed in two packages containing auto tools and spare parts, a Supreme Court jury heard yesterday.
James Rumley, 38, originally from Sandys, was living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylv...
DATE: Nov 17, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
An alleged machete attack victim told a jury how trouble flared during a night out with girlfriends.
Dante Allen said that she arrived at Bailey’s Bay Cricket Club on the evening of November 9 last year with her sister and met friend Collisha Burch o...
DATE: Sep 30, 2014
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
The law has finally caught up with a convicted prowler more than six years after he committed his crime.
John Arthur Cook, 31, from Shelton Road, Pembroke, was found inside a car parked outside a woman’s house in Devonshire in April, 2008.
He manage...
DATE: Aug 20, 2014
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Gareth Finighan
