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A man who admitted drink driving when he almost hit a police car was sent to Driving Under the Influence Court yesterday after he said he had been drinking because of family problems. Otis Johnson, 43, pleaded guilty to the offence in Magistrates’ Co...

A man who drove a public ferry into a floating dock while impaired has been suspended pending an investigation, the Ministry of Transport announced. A transport ministry spokesman confirmed that Ascot Lightbourne, 60, had been “relieved of his duties...

A 35-year-old man has denied a sex assault on a woman. The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to the charge in Magistrates’ Court on Monday. The offence is alleged to have happened on December 29 last year in Devonshi...

A senior magistrate yesterday said it was “abject madness” that he could not impose a ban on a ferry pilot who was at the helm while impaired by alcohol. Juan Wolffe said that his inability to pull the licence of Ascot Lightbourne, 60, was a “gross ...

A man who admitted an assault on his mother because he missed a lift for a Covid-19 test was ordered yesterday to have a mental health assessment. Percy Smith, 23, pleaded guilty at Magistrates’ Court to an assault on his mother, as well as to two co...

A man has appeared in court charged with attempted murder in connection with an alleged home invasion. It was alleged in Magistrates’ Court that Pelealkhai Williams tried to kill Jakai Harford on December 12 at a house in St George’s. Mr Williams, 32...

A man and a woman denied involvement in an alleged $65,000 money laundering scheme. Judah Roberts, 25, from Smith’s, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday to the transfer of $65,000 in cash that he knew or suspected was the proceeds of ...

A 60-year-old man was yesterday charged with a serious sex assault almost 40 years ago. The man, from Sandys, was accused in Magistrates’ Court of an alleged rape of a woman on June 5, 1983. The defendant and the alleged victim cannot be identified f...

A 74-year-old driver charged with causing grievious bodily harm to a magistrate was yesterday accused of trying to shift the blame on to the alleged victim. Nicole Smith, for the Crown, told Magistrates’ Court that Brian Alkon failed to pay attentio...

A man caught trying to sneak more than $67,000 out of Bermuda has lost a Supreme Court legal battle to get the cash back. Puisne Judge Sade Subair Williams ruled that, on the balance of probabilities, the cash was the proceeds of crime – specifically...

The trial of a senior Government care worker charged with an assault a teenager in her care will return to Magistrates’ Court next year. Kennette Robinson, 52, has denied charges that she punched and mistreated a 17-year-old girl in an incident at th...

A social inquiry report was yesterday ordered on a man after he admitted possession of more than $1,700 worth of cocaine with intent to supply. Magistrates’ Court heard that police stopped Zjah Fari Smith, 25, on St John’s Road in Pembroke after they...