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The Privy Council has refused to hear appeals in two Bermudian murder cases. The Court said it had declined permission to appeal the cases of Wolda Gardner and Jaquii Pearman DeSilva, who were convicted of the murders of Malcolm Augustus and Prince E...

A homeless man sent a series of death threats against David Burt and his family in a “campaign of abuse and harassment”, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. The Premier, who has two young children, was “alarmed and disturbed” by the messages, which ra...

Lawyers at a Supreme Court hearing for a judicial review into the termination of the former chief executive of the Bermuda Health Council have sought to dispel the possibility of the presiding judge being accused of bias. Assistant Justice David Kess...

A preteen girl told the Supreme Court yesterday that she did not tell anyone she was sexually assaulted because she was scared. She explained that she only told her great-grandmother about the abuse after a man was discovered in her bedroom. The c...

A Warwick man admitted handling more than $290,000 of drugs with intent to supply. Luri Scott, 24, pleaded guilty at Supreme Court on Tuesday to handling cannabis, cannabis resin and tetrahydrocannabinol, the active ingredient in cannabis, at his hom...

A preteen girl told a jury that she was sexually assaulted in her family home as a Supreme Court trial began yesterday. The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, described to jurors how a man groped and had sex with her 2½ years ago. Her emot...

A legal dispute between the Director of the Department of Public Prosecutions and one of his deputies over an allegation of gross misconduct came before the Court of Appeal yesterday. Larry Mussenden sought to overturn a decision by the Supreme Court...

Two men denied being involved in a brawl during the holiday weekend. Keishun Trott, 28, and T’naji Taylor, 24, both pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to taking part in a fight. Mr Taylor, from Southampton, also pleaded not guilty to...

The Court of Appeal was urged to overturn a murder conviction on the basis that fresh evidence had arisen. Jerome Lynch QC, lawyer for Khyri Smith-Williams, told the court last week that two affidavits, one signed and one not, could raise doubts on t...

A legal row between two of the island’s top prosecutors is expected to go before the Court of Appeal today. Larry Mussenden, the Director of the Department of Public Prosecutions, will appeal a judge’s decision regarding the way he handled a complain...