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A man who killed a grandfather was yesterday ordered by the Supreme Court to be detained at a psychiatric hospital in Britain. David Grant pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Henry Santucci in May 2020 on the grounds of diminished responsibility. A...

The deportation of a convicted sex offender on the Governor’s orders was welcomed by a charity leader. Tina Laws, the executive director of the Women’s Resource Centre, said on Sunday she hoped that the decision, announced in court last week, would g...

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...

Keeva Joell-Benjamin has become Bermuda’s first female Commissioner of Corrections. The appointment of the 30-year veteran of the prison service became effective on January 17, it was announced. She had held the position in an acting capacity since 2...

Police have arrested a 31-year-old man after a drone carrying drugs was intercepted by staff at Westgate prison. A police spokesman said the police drugs unit and tactical support division were called in after the aerial drone “breached the perimeter...

The Government has paid an Irish firm more than $275,000 to replace security doors at the island’s prisons. According to a notice published in the Official Gazette, Technical Door Solutions were contracted to carry out the work at both Westgate and t...

Pupils and prisoners have been helped by a community group that launched campaigns to provide computers and books. The Grateful Bread rallied supporters, who paid for 20 Chromebooks for children and donated boxes of books to Westgate inmates. The gro...

A remand prisoner who admitted assaulting a fellow inmate and a corrections officer yesterday claimed that the attack came after he was called a racial slur. Alvin Leverock, 41, told Magistrates’ Court that a combination of stress and outrage caused ...

A hunt has been launched for a new head of the prison service. The Commissioner of Corrections post was advertised three and a half years after Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Lamb, the last permanent commissioner, was seconded to the National Anti-Money ...

A top marathon runner was jailed for six months yesterday and banned from the roads for five years after the island’s top magistrate blasted his drink-driving record. Magistrates’ Court heard that Lamont Marshall, 36, was sent to DUI Court for drink...

Prisoner numbers have been slashed by more than 50 per cent over the last 11 years, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Senior Magistrate Juan Wolffe said that locking up offenders was the “last option” and that community-based sentences meant debts to soc...

More than 30 services and programmes are offered to help people in the island’s prison system, a Government spokeswoman said. She added that a refusal to take part in some core courses could affect release dates and parole chances. The Department of ...