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Gunman Derek Spalding has been jailed for at least 38 years for murdering footballer Shaki Crockwell over a drug debt. Locking him up, Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves said: “This was a murder, a premeditated murder, carried out by a very manipulative, ...

A British author who worked in the Bermuda prison service has written a book about the murders of Police Commissioner George Duckett, Governor Sir Richard Sharples and his aide Captain Hugh Sayers. Mel Ayton is a specialist in writing about conspirac...

February 17, 2012 Dear Sir, By the time I had finished reading the letter from Sheelagh Cooper in today’s Royal Gazette, referring to Noet Barnett’s sentence, I was reduced to tears. What a wonderful, compassionate letter explaining to the Judge, th...

Blaming society for criminal behaviour has become such a cliché that many people simply disregard it when trying to understand why people commit serious crimes. But the letter written by campaigner Sheelagh Cooper on behalf of Noet Barnett gives vast...

Jamaican police may travel to Bermuda as thhey investigate the gun murder of Bermudian Karen Hudson-Lewis, the detective leading the case said. “We are actually looking to come there and liaise with police,” Deputy Superintendent Beresford Brown told...

The judge in the Derek Spalding murder trial banned the media from naming six prosecution witnesses, a move that prompted defence lawyer Mark Pettingill to comment, “people have to have the courage of their convictions and be prepared to put their na...

Youngsters training on Spirit of Bermuda will have to undergo police checks in the aftermath of the Derek Spalding controversy. The move was announced by the Bermuda Sloop Foundation after Supreme Court allegations that murderer Spalding smuggled gun...

Murder victim Shaki Crockwell’s father has thanked the father of the killer for having the strength to testify against him in court. Derek Spalding’s father was a key prosecution witness in the murder trial, which resulted in a guilty verdict on Frid...

The father of murder victim Shaki Crockwell said he harbours no hatred for his son’s killer. Derek Spalding, 36, was convicted by a jury on Friday of shooting the football star dead in revenge for a drug debt. The victim’s father, Danny Crockwell, 51...

The grieving father of murdered footballer Shaki Crockwell said he would sleep easier in his bed last night after his son’s killer was finally brought to justice. Derek Spalding was convicted by a unanimous verdict of shooting Mr Crockwell dead on Au...

A defence lawyer urged a jury to clear the name of murder-accused Derek Spalding, dismissing the case against him as “lies, lies and lies, culminating in more lies”. Prosecutors allege that Mr Spalding, 36, shot 25-year-old footballer Shaki Crockwell...

Murder accused Derek Spalding could face a jury’s verdict today, following closing arguments depicting him as a criminal who sought to use maritime experience as a means of smuggling drugs into Bermuda. Prosecutor Carrington Mahoney told the court th...