The devastated mother of Bermuda's first road fatality of 2009 wept as she told of her grief at losing her "beautiful boy". James Robert Smith, 24, was killed after his motorcycle hit a parked car close to his home in Somerset just after 2 a.m. on January 9.

A father-of-ten whose son and daughter were both killed by their partners in the past three years was found dead himself outside a shop on January 19. The body of Allan Dill, 58, from Pembroke, was discovered at about 8 a.m. in the doorway of the W.J. Boyle building, which hosts Bermuda Gas and Belco offices, next to Par-la-Ville car park.