The father of murdered Canadian teenager Rebecca Middleton will fly to Bermuda this weekend to give evidence at the probe into serious crimes.

And last night Dave Middleton appealed to other victims to come forward, saying that although he wanted answers, nothing could bring Rebecca back.

But he said other people in Bermuda who have fallen victim to serious crimes should join him in giving evidence in a bid to make sure the same mistakes do not happen again.

Mr. Middleton will spend next Monday listening to tape recordings of evidence already heard at The Commission of Inquiry into Serious Crimes before taking to the witness stand on Tuesday.

He said: "We can't spend the rest of our lives re-living what happened to Becky, but we can try to put things right by looking at the way crimes are handled in Bermuda, how they affect people's lives and seeing if they can be improved.

"I am going to come to Bermuda to talk about the affect of serious crime on victims and I would encourage other victims and their families to speak, also.

"One of the things I will talk about was how difficult it was for me to stay informed and up to date on what was happening.

"I remember going to court for the trial and nobody from the prosecution came over to talk to me. I had to go and introduce myself to them.

"That wouldn't have been a problem if I had previously been given an opportunity to meet the actual prosecutors.'' Rebecca was raped, tortured and stabbed to death in Ferry Reach in 1996 while on holiday with her friend Jasmine Meens.

Nobody has ever been convicted of her murder. Justis Smith was acquitted of pre-meditated murder after Puisne Judge Vincent Meerabux deemed there to be insifficient evidence - a decision later labeled "astonishing'' by the Privy Council.

Kirk Mundy was only charged with accessory after the fact and received a five-year sentence, despite DNA test results not having been returned to Police.

Experts later revealed that it would have taken two people to commit the murder, one person to hold Rebecca down while the other inflicted the torture wounds.

Earlier this week former Attorney General at the time of Rebecca's death Elliott Mottley came to Bermuda to give evidence at the inquiry.

He denied a deal had ever been struck offering Mundy a lesser charge in return for information on Smith, and instead said there was a lack of evidence.

Looking at the evidence: The commissioners conducting an inquiry into the handling of serious crimes on the Island yesterday met with detectives when they visited the Scenes of Crimes department in the East End.

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