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Jahmico Trott was found guilty yesterday of attempted murder. A jury also convicted Trott, 30, of using a firearm, handling a firearm and carrying a firearm to commit an offence by a majority decision. Trott’s co-accused, Troy Burgess Jr was acquitt...

A serial sex offender was jailed for 18 years yesterday after a sexual assault on a tourist in her hotel room. Lonnie Trott, 56, climbed into the second-floor room at the Grotto Bay Resort, stripped naked and assaulted a woman while she slept. The at...

A bar owner charged with attempted murder told a court yesterday he feared alleged gang leader Jahkeil Samuels was armed with a gun when he stabbed him. Carlton Simmons, owner of the Ambiance Lounge in Hamilton, told the Supreme Court: “I was afraid....

A Supreme Court jury saw graphic CCTV footage yesterday of an attack in a Hamilton nightclub. A silent courtroom watched a series of short clips taken from the Ambiance Lounge on August 12 last year that appeared to show Carlton Simmons stab Jahkeil...

A former prison officer convicted of smuggling drugs into Westgate Correctional Facility has won a Supreme Court appeal. Chief Justice Ian Kawaley ruled that three convictions against Art Simons should be quashed. The judge did not dismiss the charge...

A man who jumped from a balcony at his home to escape a gunman has testified in court that he instantly identified his attacker. The witness, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said: “I knew for a fact from the second he came to the door. I ...

The Coalition for the Protection of Children, Saving Children and Revealing Secrets, Women’s Resource Centre and the Centre Against Abuse are relieved and grateful to see that the Minister of Legal Affairs, Senator Kathy Lynn Simmons, has accepted th...

A jury heard how a man struggled with his would-be shooter in the middle of the street after being targeted in a daylight attack. Another man ran into the fray, but prosecutor Carrington Mahoney alleged he was attempting to help the shooter. The gunm...

A man accused of smuggling the controlled drug fentanyl to Bermuda was found not guilty last night. Craig Lawrence was also cleared by a Supreme Court jury of possessing the synthetic opiate with intent to supply. The Canadian national from Markham,...

A man accused of a plot to import fentanyl was cleared of charges yesterday. A jury found Maurice Martin not guilty of conspiring to import a controlled drug on the instructions of Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons. She told the jury: “As a result of...

A convicted drugs mule who smuggled fentanyl into Bermuda broke down in tears yesterday as she recounted how doctors told her she could have died after the rupture of one of the drug pellets she had swallowed. Canadian Jacqueline Robinson said that h...

Security at the Supreme Court must be improved, Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons has said. “The physical security of the building, and of the judges in particular, is conspicuous by its absence,” Ms Justice Simmons said. “The House of Assembly has ...