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A prank involving a man tied up in a sheet and dumped on the street by his friends provoked a “frenzy” in the community but proved how police have stepped up their patrols, according to Cabinet Minister Wayne Perinchief.
The National Security Ministe...
DATE: Apr 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Tough new legislation to combat dangerous driving was approved by MPs in the House of Assembly yesterday.
The Road Traffic Amendment Act 2012 creates new traffic offences including:
n causing death or grievous bodily harm by dangerous driving;
n caus...
DATE: Apr 28, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Politics
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Sisters Lorraine Smith and Audra-Ann Bean yesterday became the first defendants in Bermuda to be convicted of senior abuse after a jury found them guilty of fleecing their grieving elderly grandmother.
The pair stole almost half a million dollars fro...
DATE: Apr 27, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Sisters Lorraine Smith and Audra-Ann Bean were today convicted of stealing almost half a million dollars from their 87-year-old grandmother Lenice Tucker.
A unanimous Supreme Court jury found Smith, 46, of Lusher Hill, Warwick, guilty of one count of...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Other
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Two Pembroke men have admitted their involvement in a shooting near Gravity nightclub.
Pelealkhai Williams, 23, pleaded guilty at Supreme Court to wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm by unlawfully shooting at Rodney Grimes with a loaded f...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
The late sister of alleged elder abuse victim Lenice Tucker would be “spinning in her grave” if she knew how the money she left behind had “torn apart” her family, a jury was told yesterday.
Crown counsel Garrett Byrne, giving his closing statement a...
DATE: Apr 26, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A woman accused of financially exploiting and stealing from her grandmother shopped for shoes and jewellery after paying $7,000 of the elderly woman’s money into her own account, a court heard yesterday.
Audra-Ann Bean, 44, of Lusher Lane East, Warwi...
DATE: Apr 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A woman charged with stealing almost half a million dollars from her elderly grandmother was yesterday accused of telling the jury at her Supreme Court trial a “pack of lies”.
Lorraine Smith, 46, of Lusher Hill, Warwick, was asked by Crown counsel Ga...
DATE: Apr 24, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
Grandmother Lenice Tucker visited Butterfield Bank to find out “where her money was” in October 2010, a jury heard yesterday.
Sydonnie White-Bademosi, branch manager at Butterfield on Reid Street, told the Supreme Court trial of Ms Tucker’s granddaug...
DATE: Apr 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
A granddaughter alleged to have siphoned almost half a million dollars from her 87-year-old grandmother’s bank accounts told a court yesterday: “I didn’t steal it.”
Lorraine Smith, 46, of Lusher Hill, Warwick, took the witness stand in her own defenc...
DATE: Apr 21, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways
