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Judge delays summation in double murder trial till next week

JUSTICE Estelle Gray-Evans has put off giving her summation in the double murder and armed robbery trial of three men in the Supreme Court to next week.

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Shane Gibson's case management session adjourned

FORMER Labour minister Shane Gibson's case management session for his upcoming bribery trial has been put off until next week.

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Careless driver fined $5,000 for crash that killed man

A 59-year-old woman was yesterday ordered to pay a $5,000 fine or face two years in prison for killing a man after crashing into his vehicle, moments after she allegedly attempted to flee the scene of an earlier crash two months ago.

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Belt 'did not have DNA on it'

WHILE the belt found wrapped around pregnant schoolteacher Marisha Bowen’s neck two years ago had blood on it and was “frayed”, it did not have any traces of the DNA belonging to the man accused of killing her. Detective Sergeant Nathanial Lloyd, at

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Abaco murder suspect charged

A 31-year-old man was arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday accused of murdering another man in Marsh Harbour, Abaco, last Friday. Adnardo Major, of Dundas Town, stood before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt charged with one count of mu

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57-year-old man accused over stabbing of woman in dispute

A 57-year-old man has been formally charged with attempting to murder a woman following a domestic dispute last Friday.Wilfred Armbrister, of Marshall Road, stood before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt on one count of attempted murder stemmin

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Forensic expert identifies DNA samples in murder case

AN AMERICAN forensic analyst yesterday testified how DNA samples from the man accused of murdering pregnant teacher Marisha Bowen matched the DNA samples obtained from a vaginal swab of the Guyanese woman. Rachel Oefelein, a forensic DNA analyst at

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Lawyer found in contempt in murder case

ATTORNEY Geoffrey Farquharson was found in contempt of court after repeated loud outbursts as the prosecution addressed members of the jury hearing a double murder and armed robbery trial in Grand Bahama.

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Armed robber guilty of killing cashier challenges conviction

A MAN sentenced to life in prison for murdering a cashier at his family’s food store in the course of an armed robbery on a Family Island a decade ago is seeking to legally contest his conviction.

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A $400 price to pay for trying to leave country with $33,000

FOUR Haitians, two women and two men, were yesterday fined $100 each after pleading guilty to attempting to leave the country with over $33,000 in foreign currency.

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Two in hospital after shooting and stabbing

POLICE are investigating separate shooting and stabbing incidents which left two men in hospital with serious injuries. Shortly after 9pm on Sunday, a man was discovered outside a home on Catherine Avenue, Nassau Village, with apparent gunshot injur

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Pregnant teacher was found dead 'with blood on walls'

A POLICE officer yesterday described the bloody scene inside pregnant teacher Marisha Bowen’s apartment the morning he and other officers discovered her lifeless, naked body lying in a pool of blood in a bedroom almost two years ago.Detective Corpora

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One dead, five injured in shootings

POLICE are investigating the circumstances into the shooting death of a man on a Family Island alongside two separate shooting incidents in New Providence that left five men in hospital over the weekend.

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‘I took Nygard’s cash to smear rival Bacon’

A FORMER ZNS reporter has admitted in open court to previously publishing numerous false and defamatory allegations about Lyford Cay billionaire Louis Bacon, pictured, for five years and that he did so at the “express instructions” of Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard and his former attorney Keod Smith for payment.

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Armed robbers hunted by police

POLICE are looking for the suspects behind two armed robberies that happened Saturday morning.