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Governor Sir Richard Gozney has reassured Bermudians that he is “not deaf” to concerns over the way a magistrate handled the case of a paedophile on Tuesday. Meanwhile the victim’s family told this newspaper they want to thank residents of the Island...

Judges and Magistrates are rightly given discretion in sentencing because it is inarguable that every case that comes to the courts is different and must be judged on its own merits. At the same time, justice must be seen to be blind and there has t...

The jury in a long-running case of alleged fraud against Government heard the final piece of evidence yesterday, eleven weeks to the day after it began. Kyril Burrows and Delcina Bean-Burrows are accused, between them, of diverting more than $553,000...

Prosecutors in the United States want Bermudian Rudolph Clarke to be imprisoned for up to 15 and a half years for his part in a $3.9 million heroin importation plot. However his sentencing was postponed yesterday after his lawyer said co-defendant Ky...

A child welfare campaigner said she was “appalled” by comments made by a magistrate who handed a suspended sentence to a paedophile who sexually exploited a 12-year-old girl. Sheelagh Cooper branded the handling of the Joshua Crockwell case as being ...

A firefighter who got a 12-year-old girl to perform a sex act on him when he was 20 years old was spared a jail sentence yesterday. Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo said Joshua Crockwell “ought to have known that she was off limits. You were old enough to ...