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A man who said he visited a house to buy alcohol despite the Covid-19 lockdown was fined $3,000 yesterday.
Treadwell Smith, 33, from Devonshire, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court to a breach of the shelter-in-place regulations by leaving his home ...
DATE: Apr 24, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man was remanded in custody today after he was charged with breaches of probation and the shelter in place regulations.
Junius Caines, 51, was alleged in Magistrates’ Court to have broken his probation order by taking illegal drugs sometime between...
DATE: Apr 24, 2020
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man has denied assaulting his estranged wife.
Dwayne Musson, 24, from Smith’s, pleaded not guilty yesterday to a charge that he caused grievous bodily harm to Leila Musson.
Magistrates’ Court heard in an online sitting that Mrs Musson fractured her...
DATE: Apr 21, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man accused of a break-in at a boat club and the theft of a bottle of whisky was remanded in custody yesterday.
Jeshon Sullivan, from St George’s, pleaded not guilty to the charges and also denied he breached curfew regulations.
It was alleged in M...
DATE: Apr 18, 2020
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A grocery store worker has denied he coughed on police officers and that he told them he had “the coronavirus”.
Taahir Augustus, 26, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court yesterday to two charges of assault on police officers.
Mr Augustus also den...
DATE: Apr 17, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Bermuda’s courts have updated their procedures in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
A practice direction, sent to those who work in both the Supreme Court and Magistrates’ Court by Alexandra Wheatley, the Supreme Court Registrar, details how hearing...
DATE: Apr 15, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man who breached the Covid-19 curfew while wearing an electronic monitoring device has been jailed for a month.
Lawrence Smith, 22, from Paget, pleaded guilty to three breaches of the Shelter in Place regulations.
Smith admitted unlawfully visiting...
DATE: Apr 14, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man was fined after he was found by police in Warwick in breach of the island-wide lockdown.
Kalio Govia, from Pembroke, pleaded guilty to the offence in an online sitting of Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday.
Govia, 36, of Pembroke, was stopped on...
DATE: Apr 13, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A developer has been ordered to pay legal costs after he abandoned an effort to fight the validity of a prosecution over a failed hotel project.
Michael MacLean had asked for a judicial review of the Director of Public Prosecution’s 2018 decision to ...
DATE: Apr 09, 2020
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two men have been charged with breaches of the 24-hour shelter-in-place order that came into force at the weekend.
Christopher Eggen, 31, from Southampton, was alleged to have breached the curfew last Sunday.
He denied the offence, but yesterday seni...
DATE: Apr 07, 2020
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