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A 34-year-old man has been banned from the roads for 18 months for drinking and driving after a traffic stop in the early hours of New Year’s Day. Daniel Joell, of Smith’s, was stopped by police on Angle Street, Hamilton, after disobeying a traffic s...

A 36-year-old man who shut down the island’s courts with a hoax bomb threat escaped a jail sentence yesterday. Robert Somner, who spent about a month behind bars before trial, was sentenced to time already served. Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo told Somn...

The introduction of roadside breath tests could face legal and constitutional hurdles. Senior magistrate Juan Wolffe said the use of a breathalyser programme would need to be regulated. He said: “If there is going to be roadside testing, there have g...

A former teacher on the island appeared in Magistrates’ Court yesterday charged with sexual assault on a teenager after he was extradited from the United States. The 47-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to sexually a...

A 47-year-old man caught riding a motorbike while more than double the drink-driving limit was banned yesterday for 18 months. Calvin Trott, from Smith’s, was also fined $1,200 at Magistrates’ Court. Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo heard that Trott was st...

Police officers who seized a terrified three-year-old boy from his parents acted outside the law, the Supreme Court has ruled. Assistant Justice David Kessaram said that the Department of Child and Family Services and Family Court had been wrong to b...

A convicted drugs mule who smuggled fentanyl into Bermuda broke down in tears yesterday as she recounted how doctors told her she could have died after the rupture of one of the drug pellets she had swallowed. Canadian Jacqueline Robinson said that h...

A police officer pleaded not guilty to a charge of unlawful wounding on Friday. Oswin Pereira, 39, from Smith’s, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to unlawfully wounding Talundae Grant in Southampton on May 13, 2017. Mr Pereira elected to ha...

A 29-year-old man admitted a profanity-laced tirade against a female traffic warden. Arya Outerbridge, of Hamilton Parish, pleaded guilty in Magistrates’ Court on Friday to using offensive language and uttering threatening words in an incident on Fr...

A mother who lost her son in a road crash has now lost a civil claim seeking damages from the other driver involved. Sandra Matthews-Wilson launched the case on behalf of her grandchildren, arguing that Lesley Cox was partially responsible for the de...