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A coronavirus-compliant courtroom at Sessions House is to be created so backlogged Supreme Court criminal trials can go ahead, a government minister has revealed. Neville Tyrrell, the Acting Minister of Public Works, said: “Funding has been identifie...

A man was fined and banned from the road for six months after he admitted causing a crash. Leroy Bartram, 45, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to driving without due care and attention. The court heard that Bartram’s motorbike collided with a wo...

A man denied an assault and unlawful detention of a woman yesterday. Dudley Swan, 61, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to an assault on Nora King and unlawfully depriving her of her liberty. The incident is alleged to have happened on August ...

A Supreme Court judge highlighted yesterday the continued failure by the Government to set up coronavirus-compliant courtrooms for criminal trials. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said she was keen to set trial dates for 19 cases. But she told Mark...

A lawyer told the Supreme Court that a colleague had not done his job when he advised a mentally ill man to plead guilty to an alleged street attack on a 70-year-old man on New Year’s Day. Charles Richardson said that Bruce Swan, who appeared for the...

A troubled teenager was spared jail yesterday after a court heard he had experienced “a great deal of trauma and turmoil”. Zywonde Lema said he was “really remorseful” after he pleaded guilty to taking two motorcycles without consent and twice handli...

A teenager was shown mercy in Magistrates’ Court after he pleaded guilty to the theft of a speaker. Shane Darrell, 19, was given a three-month conditional discharge when he admitted that he stole an $180 speaker because he had one stolen from him. Th...

A senior who admitted throwing a corrosive liquid at police in a seven-hour stand-off escaped a jail sentence yesterday. James Dallas, 71, who was released from custody in November last year after nine months in jail, was sentenced in the Supreme Cou...

Two men denied seven drug charges yesterday, which included the possession of cocaine valued at more than $17,000. Steven Easton, 48, and Jason Liburd, 49, pleaded not guilty at Magistrates’ Court to three counts of possession of cocaine with intent ...

A man who racked up more than $3,000 in fines, after he pleaded guilty yesterday to possession of drug equipment and a string of traffic offences, was given until October to pay. But magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo also ordered David Eatherley, 35, to pay...