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A gunman who killed one man and seriously injured a second will remain behind bars after judges dismissed his appeal. In May 2014, Julian Washington was convicted of the premeditated murder of Stefan Burgess and the attempted murder of Davano Brimmer...

A former acting director of telecommunications has lost a claim that the Ministry of Finance is unlawfully withholding more than $150,000 from him. Hiram Edwards was hired as an assistant telecommunications inspector on a temporary basis in 1997 afte...

A man jailed for a plot to import $6 million of cannabis to Bermuda has lost an appeal against his conviction. George Virgil was found guilty last year of conspiring to import 263lbs of the controlled drug, and was subsequently sentenced to ten years...

A thief jailed for eight years for a series of offences has had his sentence reduced by the Court of Appeal. Joeshun Russell, 40, pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, obtaining property by deception, making and using a false instrument and taking a...

A Jamaican prisoner who was denied parole has lost an appeal after he claimed the policies were discriminatory. Leighton Griffiths, a Jamaican national married to a Bermudian, was convicted of possessing 480.5g of cocaine with intent to supply. He wa...

A Sandys man jailed for attempting to steal a phone has lost an appeal against his sentence. Keino Lambert, 25, was convicted for the offence last June after a Magistrates’ Court trial. The court heard that on January 15, 2014, he attempted to steal ...

A mother of three has launched an appeal against her conviction for murdering a teenage boy. Kiahna Trott-Edwards, 32, was found guilty last year of murdering Shijuan Mungal by striking him around the head with a baseball bat during a confrontation o...

Several convicted murderers are due to appear before the Court of Appeal next month as they seek to overturn their convictions. Devon Hewey, Jay Dill, Julian Washington and Wolda Gardner, all of whom have been found guilty of premeditated murder, app...

A man found guilty of being involved in a shooting has had his conviction overturned by the Court of Appeal. Stacey Robinson had been sentenced to 12 years in prison after being convicted of wounding Lionel Thomas Jr with intent to cause bodily harm,...

A man whose prison sentence was extended by a year after cannabis was found in his cell has seen his sentence reduced after an appeal. Everett Jahni Bean, 33, was originally sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in a 2011 plot to import...

A man convicted of unlawful carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old has lost an appeal in which he claimed he should have been charged with sexual assault. Aaron O’Connor, who was 20 at the time of the offence, argued before the Court of Appeal that had he...

A 21-year-old man will have to wait to find out whether his appeal against a conviction of having underage sex with a 15-year-old girl will be successful. Aaron Ashley O’Connor, 21, of The Glebe Road, Pembroke was jailed for 12 months for the offence...