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Dear Sir, I read with interest the article in today’s The Royal Gazette entitled “Concern over lack of court space”. Surely the obvious answer to get another courtroom available is to reopen the court on 113 Front Street on the corner of Front and Co...

A man accused of trying to smuggle ecstasy worth $236,500 and other drugs into the island hidden in baby supplies and shirts told customs officers he was surprised when they found the contraband in a suitcase. Edward Jaloni Albouy, 25, denied attempt...

A 30-year-old man was found guilty yesterday of a string of child pornography charges. Daniel Rocha was convicted on seven counts of accessing pornographic images and videos over a five-year period between 2010 and 2015. Rocha was found guilty at Sup...

The Director of Public Prosecutions was appointed a Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court yesterday. John Rankin, the Governor, announced that Larry Mussenden will take up the role when Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves retires in July. Mr Rankin: “I am conf...

A man charged with seven child pornography offences yesterday denied he accessed the images on a laptop seized from his home. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the Supreme Court that he could say “with a clear conscience and cert...

A man twice found guilty of a gun murder yesterday had his conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal. Travonne Saltus walked free from court after the appeals panel found that there had been errors in the trial judge’s direction of the jury at his se...

The widow of a computing tycoon and philanthropist has launched legal action against the Minister of National Security over her husband’s private island. Lawyers for Lillian Martin, an American, have filed a motion at the Supreme Court to ask for a d...

A cache of child pornography was unlikely to have been planted on the laptop of a man accused of accessing the material, a computer forensics expert told the Supreme Court yesterday. David Graham, a US expert, told prosecutor Larry Mussenden that a r...

A drug mule in the biggest heroin importation case tried in Bermuda was jailed yesterday for 30 years. Josef Vlcek was caught trying to smuggle nearly three kilograms of the drug, worth $9.55 million, after he arrived on a flight from London in Septe...

More than 1,200 child pornography videos and images were found in a raid on a 30-year-old man’s home, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. The pornography is alleged to have been on a laptop found under the man’s bed after a police search of his Devons...

A man caught with almost $10 million of heroin was convicted of drug importation yesterday. Josef Vlcek, 49, of the Czech Republic, was found guilty at Supreme Court of importation of the drug and possession with intent to supply. He remained silent ...

A set of court recordings that judges claimed did not exist and which detectives failed to find during a “full and proper investigation” have been uncovered during an inquiry by the Information Commissioner’s Office. A group of litigants who have bee...