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The island’s top magistrate yesterday said that Covid regulations are ‘criminalising people who are otherwise not criminals’. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe told Magistrates’ Court that many breaches of the Public Health Regulations created criminal r...

A 36-year-old man on trial for sexually assaulting a woman said yesterday the alleged attack never took place. Crown counsel Javone Rogers told Magistrates’ Court that on May 6, 2018 the man yanked the woman’s pants down, pushed her onto a bed and to...

Jurors involved in a murder trial are all to be questioned about their deliberations in the case, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday. Cleveland Rogers and Katrina Burgess were both jailed for the murder of Marcus Gibbings, who was fatally stabbed in...

A woman was fined $2,500 after she admitted visiting a friend during the last Government stay at home order. Imani Byron, 23, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to going to another house during the order, as well as a breach of the previous 8pm to ...

A man has been charged with the theft of $2,845 worth of goods over a six-week period. Harrison Gibbons, 53, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to stealing $20 worth of food from Shelly Bay MarketPlace, but denied the theft of $2,825 in power tools...

A date has been fixed to hear a legal challenge that claims strict curfew laws are unconstitutional and denied people a “reasonable excuse” defence. Marc Daniels, the defence lawyer for Kinte Smith, confirmed last week that the challenge will be hear...

A teenager who led police on a high-speed chase was banned from the roads for 18 months and fined $1,000 on Friday after he admitted drink driving. Magistrates’ Court heard that police parked near the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute on East...

A man who almost hit with a police car while out past the curfew on New Year’s Day was yesterday fined $1,500. Darico Clarke, 29, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to a breach of the earlier 11pm to 5am curfew. The court heard that police were dri...

Two convicted gunmen were not disadvantaged by unfairness in the jury selection system, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Quincy Brangman and Le-Veck Roberts both asked for their convictions to be quashed because prosecutors “stood by” a disproportionat...

A 24-year-old man was jailed for 20 months yesterday for sexual exploitation of a 12-year-old girl. Shundray Gilbert, from Devonshire, was told in Magistrates’ Court that, although he had shown remorse and seemed to be at low risk of reoffending, he ...