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A 32-year-old man has been accused of threatening and intimidating a witness.
Jahmico Trott was charged in Magistrates’ Court with two offences, one of witness intimidation and one of making offers to provide “payment or protection” to the same witne...
DATE: Feb 22, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A serial thief was jailed for three months after the court heard he left drug treatment court on the urging of his family.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe told the court: “The court was prepared to go all out to help him with his issues.
“We were prepa...
DATE: Feb 22, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A police officer was cleared yesterday of a charge that he injured a motorcyclist by driving without due care.
A Supreme Court jury found Barry Richards, an inspector with the Bermuda Police Service, not guilty by a unanimous verdict after several ho...
DATE: Feb 22, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A mother who admitted bringing $125,000 of cocaine into Bermuda was jailed for seven years yesterday.
Deja Anee Richardson, 26, said she knew her suitcase contained hidden drugs, but believed the drug was cannabis not cocaine. She told Supreme Court:...
DATE: Feb 21, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Jamaican man convicted of importing 220 grams of heroin into Bermuda was jailed for 18 years yesterday.
Omar Davy, 38, from Mandeville, Jamaica, had claimed he was forced to bring the drugs to the island on July 10 last year after his life and thos...
DATE: Feb 21, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A teenager was attacked by two men, one wielding a knife, on The Glebe Road today.
The 16-year-old complainant was taken to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital with cuts to his head and leg, after the incident at about 11am. He has since been discharge...
DATE: Feb 21, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A motorcyclist seriously injured in a collision with a police inspector was travelling at more than twice the speed limit, according to an investigator.
Michael Prime, a traffic collision investigator with the British-based Keith Borer Consultants, s...
DATE: Feb 20, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
An insurance company has launched legal action against a law firm over the failed Par-la-Ville hotel project.
Fidelity National Title Insurance Company alleges that Trott & Duncan did not warn that a guarantee by the Corporation of Hamilton may not b...
DATE: Feb 19, 2019
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Other
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Jamaican national who fled the airport during a customs search has been found guilty of smuggling heroin.
Omar Davy, 38, was spotted on CCTV taking a package from the back of his pants and stashing it in an already-searched bag when he was briefly ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man accused of smuggling $649,900 worth of heroin to Bermuda told a jury yesterday he was forced to bring the drugs to the island by a Jamaican “don” who threatened to kill his family.
Omar Davy, 38, said he was kidnapped and beaten by a group of m...
DATE: Feb 16, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes