The Cooper twins died from multiple blunt traumas Police have revealed - but they are withholding details pending further medical reports.

The examination of the Cooper's medical records as well as further tests, including DNA tests, will be completed in the US and details passed to the Serious Crime Unit as well as the Coroner's office.

Jahmal and Jahmil Cooper went missing on March 13 and their bodies were formally identified during a post mortem following their gruesome discovery at Abbot's Cliff last week.

The corpses were assessed by Dr. Valerie Rao, a medical examiner from Missouri and forensic insect expert Dr. James Byrd from Florida.

The study of insects and how many generations of flies have laid their eggs in a corpse can reveal how long a body has been dead.

Early in the investigation Police revealed the pair had been assaulted at a house in Devonshire after last being seen getting into a jeep at the junction of Court Street and Elliott Street. Two men have been charged together with causing grievous bodily harm - Kenneth Jermaine Burgess, 33, from Cottage Hill Road, Hamilton Parish, and Dennis Alma Robinson, 34, of Palm Valley, Southampton.

Government MP and former assistant Police Commissioner Wayne Perinchief told The Royal Gazette Bermuda was now seeing the horrors of vigilante action.

“There is a lack of control by the authorities - the Police and the judiciary. We need tougher Policing and people have started to lose confidence in the judicial system.

“Government needs to tighten it up and given them a more structured enforcement.”

He said allowing criminals to serve just a third of their sentence was no deterrent. People need to serve the time they are sentenced to. People are taking their own actions with impunity, I think criminals basically feel the authorities are not going to take any hard action and they can get away with it. That's what's frightening.”

Mr. Perinchief said Police were too soft - a policy he blamed on the era of former Commissioner Colin Coxall when the Police Force became the Police Service.

“We need to get back to enforcement action.”

He said the Police Support Unit, which tours the Island's trouble spots late at night, was a step in the right direction.

Mr. Perinchief lamented the likely early loss of Commissioner Jonathan Smith who is expected to retire before finishing his second three-year term.

He said: “Maybe at his exit interview, or before then, someone can find out why he's going. I don't want him to go.”

Mr. Perinchief said there was a lack of experience in the top ranks making it difficult to find a suitable replacement, although he said Assistant Commissioner Carlton Adams had the most experience.

“I think we might have to look at bringing in some expertise for the short term.”