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A man’s ten-year jail term for the manslaughter of Travis Lowe can be challenged by the Crown after the courts granted leave to appeal. The Crown had originally called for 16 to 20 years’ imprisonment for Keythio Whitehurst, found guilty in July 2017...

A man sentenced to 25 years in jail had his conviction overturned yesterday. Trevone Saltus was convicted in May last year of the murder of Lorenzo Stovell in Sandys in 2012. Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves sentenced Saltus to life with a minimum term ...

A trail of blood across a Hamilton nightclub was described in court yesterday as the trial of Carlton Simmons, a former alderman for the Corporation of Hamilton, began. Crown counsel Nicole Smith told the court that Mr Simmons was working at the nigh...

An accountant who admitted laundering a fortune stolen from the Bermuda Government has been jailed for seven years and four months by the Welsh courts. Confiscation proceedings are now under way to recover the funds stolen from the island by Jeffrey ...

An American educator is to be extradited to Bermuda to face sexual assault charges — more than ten years after his alleged offence against a teenage student at a local school. The accused, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, has been ordered ...

Nearly $16,000 in fines were handed out to 20 motorists convicted of driving without due care and attention in Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Most appearances at the packed court session were motorcyclists guilty of “third laning”, which is subject to...

A Supreme Court ruling has cleared up a grey area that affected the rights of Bermudian “belongers” to own land, control local companies and benefit from local trusts. Lawyer Peter Sanderson said the case had implications for “perhaps a couple of hun...

A Southampton woman has appeared in Magistrates’ Court, charged with possessing more than $42,000 worth of cannabis with intent to supply. Rebecca Wallington, 41, of Welcome Place, entered a plea of not guilty to having 857.3g of the drug in Southamp...

Irate neighbours and a persistently barking dog have landed a Warwick man with a $600 fine in Magistrates’ Court. But John Silveira, 55, of Cobbs Hill Road, vowed to respond with a grievance of his own. Crown counsel Jaleesa Simons told the court tha...

A 60-year-old Paget man has denied a series of charges, including assault. Willie Clemons pleaded not guilty to assaulting Pandora Clemons and causing bodily harm on May 24 in Pembroke. He was additionally accused of threatening a police officer with...