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A Moldovan national was jailed for 12 months for bank fraud for stealing money from cash machines.
Iurie Rogojina, 34, stole $167.50 from Clarien Bank and $780 from Butterfield Bank. He also admitted attempting to steal $4,315 from Clarien Bank and $...
DATE: Jun 24, 2019
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The Government has shown a “flagrant disregard” for children by failing to pay for them to have independent legal representation, the Court of Appeal ruled yesterday.
Court of Appeal judge Dame Elizabeth Gloster said in a written judgment that there ...
DATE: Jun 22, 2019
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A sex offender will be released without an electronic monitoring device on Monday after he argued it would cause him pain.
Junius Caines, 50, was jailed for serious sexual assault after his attempt to rape a woman was foiled by passers-by in August 2...
DATE: Jun 22, 2019
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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...
DATE: Jun 21, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
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...
DATE: Jun 21, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
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...
DATE: Jun 21, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
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...
DATE: Jun 21, 2019
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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...
DATE: Jun 20, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
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...
DATE: Jun 20, 2019
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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...
DATE: Jun 20, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes