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The Rebecca Middleton murder trial judge has criticised the Commission set up to investigate serious crime for being misleading.
In an unusual move for a judge, Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux has gone public and responded to criticisms of his ruling c...
DATE: Nov 06, 2000
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Rebecca Middleton's parents have given cautious support for the Serious Crimes Commission's report with both saying it was a "step in the right direction''.
But David and Cindy Middleton, who are divorced and spoke independently, said they would keep...
DATE: Nov 06, 2000
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Bermuda will have to overhaul how it investigates, arrests, processes and prosecutes accused people to be a modern country with confidence in its Police service, the Serious Crimes Commission has reported.
In its report the Commission expressed horro...
DATE: Nov 04, 2000
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that can combat knife and gunshot attacks while acting as a carry-all.
The Bermuda Police Service yesterday announced the provision to all officers of the vests after five years of research.
Officers will be able to carry radios, batons, handcuffs an...
DATE: Nov 03, 2000
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Rank and file Prison Officers are ready to take Government to court over conditions in the Island's correctional facilities.
And the current industrial action was taken as "a last resort'' according to the Bermuda Prison Officers Association and is d...
DATE: Nov 03, 2000
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A long-time cocaine user was jailed for three years yesterday and ordered to spend another year in a drug treatment facility.
Defence counsel Larry Mussenden, acting for Coltrane Orneth Ratteray, welcomed the decision by Chief Justice Austin Ward, sa...
DATE: Nov 02, 2000
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Lawyer Elizabeth Christopher will next week launch the legal defence of a woman accused of possessing cocaine in Bermuda -- after her flight was diverted here.
Ms Christopher advised the court she will protest that local courts have no jurisdiction i...
DATE: Nov 02, 2000
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Three 21-year-old men begin six year prison sentences today for the "night of craziness'' which led to the attack on longtime taxi driver Warrington (Soup) Zuill.
Ricardo Alexander Denbrook and brothers Howard Austin Sinclair Mello and Andrew Leroy H...
DATE: Nov 01, 2000
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A "time bomb'' was jailed for 25 years yesterday after he admitted the rape and sodomy of an elderly woman out of revenge for pressing charges against him four years ago.
Heman Ledrew Viera stood quietly, the muscles in his temples flexing after Puis...
DATE: Oct 31, 2000
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With his daughter seeing a psychiatrist for mutilating herself and his marriage over, a Warwick man was imprisoned for ten years for her sexual exploitation yesterday.
The man -- who cannot be named for legal reasons -- sobbed quietly as his crime wa...
DATE: Oct 31, 2000
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