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A Bermudian man has avoided jail time after brandishing a BB gun while he walked down a busy road in Hull, England, two summers ago.
Tyevon Bean, 29, admitted affray in Hull Crown Court last week, The Hull Daily Mail reported.
The court heard tha...
DATE: Feb 26, 2019
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A 32-year-old man has been accused of threatening and intimidating a witness.
Jahmico Trott was charged in Magistrates’ Court with two offences, one of witness intimidation and one of making offers to provide “payment or protection” to the same witne...
DATE: Feb 22, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A serial thief was jailed for three months after the court heard he left drug treatment court on the urging of his family.
Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe told the court: “The court was prepared to go all out to help him with his issues.
“We were prepa...
DATE: Feb 22, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A police officer was cleared yesterday of a charge that he injured a motorcyclist by driving without due care.
A Supreme Court jury found Barry Richards, an inspector with the Bermuda Police Service, not guilty by a unanimous verdict after several ho...
DATE: Feb 22, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man was charged with attempted murder in Magistrates’?Court yesterday.
Zachary Fox, 20, of Pembroke, was accused of the attempted murder of Richard Steede on Happy Valley Road on November 28 last year.
He was not required to enter a plea because th...
DATE: Feb 21, 2019
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A mother who admitted bringing $125,000 of cocaine into Bermuda was jailed for seven years yesterday.
Deja Anee Richardson, 26, said she knew her suitcase contained hidden drugs, but believed the drug was cannabis not cocaine. She told Supreme Court:...
DATE: Feb 21, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Jamaican man convicted of importing 220 grams of heroin into Bermuda was jailed for 18 years yesterday.
Omar Davy, 38, from Mandeville, Jamaica, had claimed he was forced to bring the drugs to the island on July 10 last year after his life and thos...
DATE: Feb 21, 2019
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Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The owner of a daycare shuttered after a child was seriously injured was operating without a licence, a court heard yesterday.
The Supreme Court heard in a civil case that Vernesha Symonds, the owner of Heavenly Blessings Nursery and Preschool, was ...
DATE: Feb 21, 2019
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A motorcyclist seriously injured in a collision with a police inspector was travelling at more than twice the speed limit, according to an investigator.
Michael Prime, a traffic collision investigator with the British-based Keith Borer Consultants, s...
DATE: Feb 20, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Jamaican national who fled the airport during a customs search has been found guilty of smuggling heroin.
Omar Davy, 38, was spotted on CCTV taking a package from the back of his pants and stashing it in an already-searched bag when he was briefly ...
DATE: Feb 19, 2019
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CATEGORY:
Court
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes