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A lawyer was under investigation by fraud squad detectives at the time of his death, according to a court ruling made public this week. The Supreme Court judgment revealed that the man was being investigated by the Organised and Economic Crime Depart...

Former Bermuda footballer Rakeem DeShields was charged yesterday with the unlawful killing of a 30-year-old man in Front Street. Mr DeShields, 25, from Paget, is alleged to have struck Dejon Simmons, a bartender, on Front Street in the early hours of...

Staff shortages in the court system are slowing up justice, the Attorney-General has warned. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Government Senate leader, told the Upper Chamber of Parliament “serious” shortages had led to a “constriction of the public’s constit...

A 30-year-old woman was charged with causing the death with a vehicle of a mother of two while there was a dangerous drug in her system. Collisha Burch did not enter a plea in Magistrates’ Court as the case will be tried in Supreme Court. Magistrate...

A man who admitted two separate drink-driving charges was banned from the roads for 18 months yesterday. Ian DeSilva, 43, pleaded guilty to failing to take a breath test on January 7 and impaired driving on November 24 last year. Magistrate Khamisi T...

A Sandys teenager was today fined $800 in connection with a collision in Southampton last summer. Jair Phillips, 18, pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention in Magistrates’ Court this morning. It stemmed from a crash on Middle Road....

A man sentenced to 25 years in jail had his conviction overturned yesterday. Trevone Saltus was convicted in May last year of the murder of Lorenzo Stovell in Sandys in 2012. Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves sentenced Saltus to life with a minimum term ...

Charges have been dropped against Spirit of Bermuda captain James Doughty after the sail training ship collided with a government ferry. Mr Doughty denied a failure to maintain a lookout and failure to avoid a collision over the incident involving th...

A 24-year-old man who shot himself in the hand by accident with a home-made gun has been jailed for six years. Shayne James was earlier convicted by a jury of two charges — handling a firearm and discharging it. Larry Mussenden, the Director of Publi...

The Department of Public Prosecutions may appeal against a court’s decision to dismiss a charge of careless driving against a defence lawyer, it was revealed yesterday. Larry Mussenden, Director of Public Prosecutions, said his department was examini...