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A judge cited “persuasive” evidence from lawyer Evatt Tamine about billionaire Robert Brockman’s ability to engage in “sophisticated furtive behaviour to conceal his actions” as a reason why the latter’s criminal trial should go ahead.
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DATE: May 25, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A sex offender sentenced to ten years in prison for attacks on two children has been accused of harming three more youngsters after being released early from jail.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, served a little more than six years in...
DATE: May 20, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A lawyer accused of "wrongfully“ taking more than $28 million from a company linked to a Bermuda-based multibillion-dollar charitable trust has been ordered to pay it back.
Evatt Tamine denies any wrongdoing in relation to the funds he transferred fr...
DATE: May 18, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
New police commissioner Darrin Simons has been ordered to respond to a public access to information request for records about a search warrant.
Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez said in a decision issued on Wednesday that the request for e...
DATE: Apr 29, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A convicted sex offender will be deported from Bermuda back to his homeland of Jamaica on the Governor’s orders, a court heard yesterday.
Brittonie Taylor, 40, was granted a temporary reprieve in October after his lawyer Victoria Greening argued that...
DATE: Jan 28, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
A judge has ruled in favour of a lawyer who sued The Royal Gazette after it reported on the work he did in Bermuda for an American billionaire accused of tax evasion.
Puisne Judge Larry Mussenden ordered the newspaper not to publish anything containe...
DATE: Jan 26, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The Governor has dropped an inquiry into allegations of gross misconduct against Stephen Corbishley, the former Commissioner of Police, The Royal Gazette can reveal.
Rena Lalgie wrote to Pc Robert Butterfield, the police officer whose complaints abou...
DATE: Jan 13, 2022
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
Almost half of Bermuda’s police officers have been investigated for alleged wrongdoing in the past three years — but the majority of complaints were resolved or dismissed.
Detective Chief Inspector Arthur Glasford, the head of the service’s professio...
DATE: Dec 24, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The Crown is to challenge a ruling by the Chief Justice that a policewoman who posted a “grossly offensive” online cartoon cannot be prosecuted.
A notice of appeal in the civil case of Pc Barbi Bishop v the Queen was filed by lawyers for the Attorne...
DATE: Oct 13, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor
The Governor has stonewalled questions about the abrupt resignation of the Commissioner of Police.
Rena Lalgie announced last Friday that Stephen Corbishley, a British officer who joined Bermuda Police Service on a five-year contract in August 2018, ...
DATE: Oct 08, 2021
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Sam Strangeways, Investigations Editor