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Former Government Forensic Pathologist John Obafunwa admitted on the stand yesterday that he may have missed two cuts to a muscle shirt found at the scene of the murder of American Stanley Lee.
Candidly admitting the omission, Dr. Obafunwa said two c...
DATE: Dec 06, 2003
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A gripping tale of double cross, murder and a drug deal gone bad, was painted yesterday by Director of Public Prosecutions Kulandra Ratneser in the trial of three Bermudian men accused of killing an American.
After a marathon 15 days of legal argumen...
DATE: Dec 05, 2003
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Famed Harvard University palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould - who nailed down the natural history of the presumed extinct Bermuda Land Snail genus - has died at his home in New York after a long battle with cancer.
The 60-year-old unlocked the mysteri...
DATE: May 21, 2002
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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands (AP) -- Three American men charged in the murder of a Connecticut artist were acquitted, leaving a New York financial adviser -- represented by former Bermuda Bar Association President Richard Hector QC -- to stand t...
DATE: May 04, 2001
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A misunderstanding about the rules governing Preliminary Inquiries (PI) in Magistrates' Court led to a legal showdown.
Lawyer Ann Cartwright got Magistrate Edward King to explain that he had never banned the media from his courtroom -- as had been br...
DATE: Mar 21, 2001
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A man and his girlfriend walked wearily from Magistrates' Court on Monday after learning that the teen who blinded him in one eye was given a suspended sentence and a $1,000 fine for the attack.
Idrin Izion Paynter said nothing and did not acknowledg...
DATE: Mar 21, 2001
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pleaded guilty to two break-ins and admitted having a drug problem.
Terry Leon Robinson shrugged his shoulders as Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said he would order a social inquiry report into why, at age 44, he would begin housebreaking.
Robins...
DATE: Mar 10, 2001
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while probation officers and his lawyer try and get him in a juvenile facility in Utah for a sex crime.
Shawn Mark Nusum, of Smith's Avenue, has been on remand since last autumn for an attack on another boy as the pair walked home last year.
Nusum wa...
DATE: Mar 10, 2001
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A woman has called for greater controls on work release for prisoners after a Government contractor allegedly paid her imprisoned ex-husband in cash, defying Prison rules.
The woman, who asked to not be identified, told The Royal Gazette she has quiz...
DATE: Mar 09, 2001
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on a mountainside in Nevis for a week a "true survivor'' Bermuda hotelier David Dodwell welcomed news the man had been found yesterday.
Anton Tomazic, 50, a guest at Mr. Dodwell's Nisbett Plantation Beach Club on Nevis, was found by a farm worker yes...
DATE: Mar 09, 2001
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