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The Supreme Court has upheld a decision by Magistrates’ Court to throw out a charge of driving without due care and attention against lawyer Charles Richardson. Puisne Judge Shade Subair said prosecutors had offered only “thin” evidence to support th...

A 20-year-old would-be lawyer was given a 12-month conditional discharge after she assaulted and obstructed police officers. Imani Byron, 20, pleaded guilty to assault on one officer and obstruction of another. Magistrates’ Court heard that the incid...

A man who refused to take a breath test was banned and fined in Magistrates’ Court. George Silva, 59, admitted refusing the test, but not guilty to a driving while impaired charge. Last week the court heard on that a motorist was driving on North Sho...

The Supreme Court has been appointed a new registrar, the Governor has announced. John Rankin welcomed Alexandra Wheatley to the team after deliberation with the Judicial and Legal Services Committee and Chief Justice. He said: “She is highly qualifi...

Two men were referred to the Drug Treatment Court yesterday after they both admitted a series of thefts. Jahni Thompson, 41, pleaded guilty to six charges including burglary, prowling and having tools for the purpose of burglary. Thompson, from Hamil...

A 20-year-old has been charged with the stabbing of a 43-year-old bartender. Alex Wolffe, from Southampton, was charged yesterday with unlawfully wounding Boris Angalov in an attempt to “resist or prevent the lawful arrest or detention of another”. M...

A 57-year-old man was charged yesterday with a string of sexual offences against an underage girl over a period of seven years. The Devonshire man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was charged with four counts of sexually touching a young ...

A woman who left a sports club just before a man was shot dead in the doorway yesterday identified the person accused of his murder as the gunman. The witness told Supreme Court that she had recognised the shooter as Jeremiah Dill, who is charged wit...

A nursing home assistant attacked a female patient with dementia and gave her a black eye, a court heard. Barbara King Bean, 53, was caught after the patient was taken to hospital with a swollen eye. Magistrates’ Court was told that the elderly woman...

A drink-driver caught at a roadside breath test checkpoint was banned from the roads for 18 months at Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Ruben Viera was stopped on Hermitage Road, Devonshire, on October 7, the court heard. Police suspected Viera was over...