Man found guilty of killing former Bermuda detective’s sons in Barbados
Two sons of a retired Bermuda narcotics detective and former CedarBridge Academy teacher died in Barbados at the hands of Yuri Fidel Agard.But Agard did not murder brothers William and Justin Greene in the stabbing incident outside the popular Cavans Lane nightclub Le Club, a jury found on Tuesday.Instead, ten of 12 jurors found he had unlawfully killed them on the night of March 26, 2006.The manslaughter verdict came as the trial wound down in the No. 5 Supreme Court.Agard, of Reed Street, the City, was on trial for murdering Justin, 21, and William, 25. The brothers were the children of retired Bermuda Police Service Detective Ronald Greene and former CedarBridge Academy teacher Margo Greene.Agard had pleaded not guilty and was represented by Queen’s Counsel Ralph Thorne and Sally Comissiong, while Principal Crown counsel Alliston Seale prosecuted.On Tuesday the eight women and four men of the jury deliberated for just under two hours before returning and, through the foreperson, explained they could not reach a unanimous verdict on murder.Less than half-hour after they had retired again, they returned with the majority ten/two guilty manslaughter verdict.This is Agard’s first offence.His attorney Thorne asked the court to order a pre-sentencing report and the request was granted by presiding judge Mr Justice William Chandler.The judge then remanded Agard to HMP Dodds pending the reading of that report on January 17.During the trial, the court heard from a nightclub security officer who said he broke up a fight on the upstairs dance floor about 45 minutes before two men were stabbed outside.The officer said men were “physically trying to attack each other” and he and other security personnel “were trying to separate them”.Those patrons then left the nightclub and went outside where there was a fight among a number of men.One man was armed with a rock “the size of a small grapefruit” while another had “something that looked like a mop stick with a sharpened point”.Lawmen later told the court that Agard dictated a written statement in which he said he was attacked by two men and was forced to defend himself after he managed to wrest a knife from one of them.Agard’s statement said it was when he was leaving Le Club that a group of men attacked ‘Chad’, the man with whom he had gone partying.“I ask what happen and a man shout ‘wait, you with he’,” the statement said read.“The man rush at me with a knife in his hand. We started to scuffle and I get the knife away from he. I stab at the man twice and I know he got juck,” Agard’s statement continued.“He fell on me and I push he off. He grab at his chest and a second man rush at me. He had a knife as well and I had to defend myself.”However, in his defence from the dock, Agard said when he saw the fight, the men were running in one direction and he ran in the opposite.He did not have a knife, neither did he stab anyone that night, he told the court.