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Drug charge dropped after husband’s plea to magistrate

A POLICE prosecutor yesterday withdrew a drug charge against a woman whose husband previously begged and pleaded with the deputy chief magistrate to have her acquitted of the crime.

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Suspect in 2016 murder case is granted bail

ONE of three men allegedly involved in a murder plot that was executed some two years ago has been granted bail ahead of his trial by the Court of Appeal.

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Bodybuilder stabbed to death

PAUL Melbourne, a 70-year-old man known for his athletic versatility, was killed Saturday at his home on McKinney Drive off Carmichael Road after arguing with a woman.

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Prison officer gunned down in street

A PRISON officer became one of the country’s latest murder victims over the weekend when he was killed at Tufa Close off Cordeaux Avenue on Friday.

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One dead, two injured after shooting off Cordeaux Avenue

One man is dead and two others are injured after a shooting off Cordeaux Avenue on Friday night.

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Man jailed for drug possession makes plea for wife's acquittal

A 46-year-old man sentenced to a year in prison on Friday for drug possession made a passionate plea to the deputy chief magistrate and the Crown to have his wife of less than 90 days acquitted of the crime.

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Conviction thrown out for attempted murder of teacher

A SUPREME Court judge has rejected a jury’s attempted murder verdict against one of three men previously tried for the murder of former Queen’s College Elementary teacher Joyelle McIntosh.

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A year’s wait for trial of man accused of stabbing his father

THE man who allegedly stabbed his elderly father to death in his house off Faith Avenue south four months ago will stand trial in a year’s time in connection with the crime.

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Accused cleared of shooting man dead at Potter’s Cay

A MAN has been cleared of murdering another man the day before his birthday on Potter’s Cay Dock three years ago after a Supreme Court jury found him not guilty of the crime.

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Hunt for school raiders

POLICE are looking for two suspects who were caught on surveillance footage during a break-in of a trailer at Windsor School off Frank Watson Highway.

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AG – absent officers ‘no great concern’

ATTORNEY General Carl Bethel yesterday called the absence of two police officers in court proceedings related to the Cabbage Beach access case “difficult to accept but not unusual”.

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Hepburn and attorneys accused of trespassing

A Grand Bahama businessman and two Nassau-based attorneys accused of trespassing at a sewage treatment plant in the Lucaya area were arraigned in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

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Retrial for man jailed for sex attack on girl

THE Court of Appeal yesterday ordered a retrial for the son of former Governor General Sir Arthur Foulkes, who was previously sentenced to ten years in prison for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl entrusted to his wife’s care six years ago.

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Death in Wulff Road was not murder

POLICE yesterday denied reports spread on social media which erroneously claimed a man found dead outside of a Wulff Road bar Monday was murdered.

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15 years extra prison time for attempted killers

TWO men, previously sentenced to a decade in prison for attempting to murder another man in 2012, yesterday had their prison time increased by 15 years after the Crown successfully appealed their “unduly lenient” sentences.