7010 results returned for search: "" category ("Court" AND "News")
A Devonshire man spotted washing his face with a can of beer admitted a charge of being drunk and incapable in public.
Omar Young, 42, pleaded guilty to the charge and a second of violently resisting arrest during an appearance in Magistrates’ Court ...
DATE: Apr 21, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Pembroke man has been banned from driving all vehicles until April 2019 after he admitted speeding away from police.
Joshua Iris, 23, pleaded guilty to charges of driving dangerously, driving while disqualified, driving an uninsured vehicle and obs...
DATE: Apr 19, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Warwick teen was remanded into custody after he admitted a pair of burglaries.
Meshach Crichton, 17, pleaded not guilty to stealing a laptop from one home, more than $11,000 of valuables from another and taking a motorcycle without consent in three...
DATE: Apr 18, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
Two Sandys men appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged in connection with the fatal shooting of Lorenzo Stovell.
Mr Stovell was killed by a gunman riding a motorcycle as he sat aboard a minibus near Woody’s bar in Sandys on September 23, 201...
DATE: Apr 18, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A man jailed for a plot to import $6 million of cannabis to Bermuda has lost an appeal against his conviction.
George Virgil was found guilty last year of conspiring to import 263lbs of the controlled drug, and was subsequently sentenced to ten years...
DATE: Apr 16, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
The imprisonment of Otis Bell this week for a vicious knife attack on his ex-girlfriend was one of the first cases of its kind to be dealt with under a new sentencing regime.
Bell was jailed for 12 years for slashing RoseAnn Edwards across her neck w...
DATE: Apr 15, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
A self-confessed drug addict who was caught red-handed with more than $200,000 of cocaine and heroin as well as $10,000 in cash has been jailed.
Dwayne Gilbert was detained after officers spotted him sat in a car outside a supermarket counting out th...
DATE: Apr 14, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
A thief jailed for eight years for a series of offences has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal.
Joeshun Russell, 40, pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, obtaining property by deception, making and using a false instrument and taking a...
DATE: Apr 14, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A Jamaican prisoner who was denied parole has lost an appeal after he claimed the policies were discriminatory.
Leighton Griffiths, a Jamaican national married to a Bermudian, was convicted of possessing 480.5g of cocaine with intent to supply. He wa...
DATE: Apr 13, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|
AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A jealous ex-boyfriend who subjected a City of Hamilton councillor to a terrifying knife attack in her home has been jailed.
Otis Walter Bell slashed RoseAnn Edwards across her neck with a hooked blade and then repeatedly taunted her saying: “You ar...
DATE: Apr 13, 2016
|
CATEGORY:
Court
|