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The Supreme Court has upheld a decision not to charge two policemen over allegations of attempted rape of a fellow officer. Mark Pettingill, the lawyer for the complainant, argued Larry Mussenden, the then Director of Public Prosecutions made “danger...

A 43-year-old child sex offender, who used a child for his own sexual gratification, was released on Christmas Eve after serving only 18 months of a five-year sentence handed down in November 2019. The community has a right to know some important det...

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...

The year 2021 presents opportunities to speak up against abuse. Offences from bullying, sexual harassment, grooming and revenge porn have undergone public scrutiny this past year. Legislation has been passed to provide better protection to those in B...

A private school has launched an investigation into potential historic sex abuse, it was revealed yesterday. Mount Saint Agnes Academy told parents in a letter yesterday that it had hired T&M Protection Resources, a New York-based firm, to conduct th...

A convicted child sex offender has lost an attempt to overturn a civil court ruling against him for the damage done to his victims. Jonathan Cumberbatch, 58, argued he was not responsible for the lasting psychological harm suffered by his victims and...

A 66-year-old man has appeared in Magistrates’ Court charged with seven counts of sexual assault. A police spokesman said the case was referred to the Supreme Court sitting on February 1 next year. He added: “Extra time was given as he was to travel ...

A report that Bermuda ranked fifth in the world for rape offences was today attacked by the island’s top police officer. Commissioner of Police Stephen Corbishley said the report, published on Facebook, was misleading “to some degree” because the Ber...

A notice was issued yesterday to inform the public about a sex offender to be released from prison today. Brittonie Lloyd Taylor, 39, will live in Pembroke after he is freed from the Prison Farm in St George’s. He was convicted and jailed for serious...

A 62-year-old man will return to court on sex assault charges after a magistrate ruled yesterday that there was sufficient evidence to go to trial. Magistrate Craig Attridge rejected a no case to answer submission, which would have dismissed the char...

A 37-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a serious sex assault at knifepoint, police said at the weekend. Detective Superintendent Nicholas Pedro added that police had not ruled out more victims. The attack on a 31-year-old woman as she...

Police have released two photos in relation to a serious sex assault on a 31-year-old woman and asked for the public’s help in identifying the suspect. The photos, which show the suspect on a motorcycle, were taken by a CCTV camera at the junction of...