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A workshop aimed at helping people better identify various forms of abuse starts this week.
The Women’s Resource Centre and the Centre Against Abuse will host the eight-week course, a direct response to the rise in sexual assaults and the incidence o...
DATE: Oct 08, 2012
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Crime
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The renewal by police of a drive to disperse antisocial gatherings in the White Hill area of Sandys has been applauded by residents.
Some saw the recent beating of a 46-year-old man at one of the area’s notorious hangouts as symptomatic of a surge in...
DATE: Oct 08, 2012
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Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Police are investigating a complaint against an officer following an incident at Magistrates’ Court.
This afternoon, a Police spokesman said: “The Bermuda Police Service is aware of a specific allegation made by a member of the public during Magistra...
DATE: Oct 04, 2012
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Crime
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The trial of a man charged with a machete attack ended yesterday after Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaved declared a mistrial.
Ahijah Dill, 27, has denied charges of wounding Miguel Swan with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and having a bladed articl...
DATE: Oct 03, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Owain Johnston-Barnes
A 24-year-old man arrested in connection with the murder of Lorenzo Stovell has been released on police bail.
Mr Stovell, 24, of Middletown Lane, Pembroke, was murdered in a shooting outside Woody’s bar in Sandys on September 23.
He was in a wheelcha...
DATE: Oct 01, 2012
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Crime
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Both Opposition parties called for a crackdown on drug abuse in prison after an Acting Magistrate said he feared for the safety of officers.
Ed Bailey condemned cannabis use in Westgate as he sentenced alleged gang leader Jakai Harford last Friday fo...
DATE: Oct 01, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Tim Smith
Cruel jibes about gang connections are making the grief of murder victim Lorenzo Stovell’s family harder to bear, they said yesterday.
Mr Stovell’s relatives acknowledged that the 24-year-old, who was partially paralysed in a previous shooting, got c...
DATE: Sep 26, 2012
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Crime
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A suspect was in custody last night in connection with the murder of a wheelchair-bound man, who was shot during a family celebration.
Lorenzo Stovell was gunned down around 11.43pm on Sunday as he waited inside a minibus near Woody’s Bar, while 20 f...
DATE: Sep 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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AUTHOR:
Jonathan Bell
Sandys MP Michael Scott has called for surveillance cameras and better lighting in the Woody’s bar area the scene of two murders, an attempted shooting and a stabbing since June 2010.
The latest victim, Lorenzo Stovell, was gunned down late on Sunday...
DATE: Sep 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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A man suffered a double broken jaw during a vicious chain-snatching attack at a city bar last week, police revealed yesterday.
A spokesman said the 33-year-old victim was assaulted around 12.30am on Wednesday, September 19, at the Beach Bar and Bistr...
DATE: Sep 25, 2012
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CATEGORY:
Crime
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