Nolle prosequi issued in murder case
LESS than a year after a 31-year-old man was charged with murder, prosecutors yesterday produced a written directive mid-trial from the Office of the Attorney General requesting that proceedings against him be discontinued.
Man gets 23 years for hacking death of former girlfriend, attack on man
A MAN yesterday accepted a plea agreement that landed him in prison for 23 years for the hacking death of his former girlfriend and the subsequent attack on her male friend.
Everything comes up roses for Flowers as conviction quashed
WEB shop operator Craig Flowers walked away from the Court of Appeal yesterday with a clean record after judges squashed his convictions and sentences concerning a raid on one of his gambling houses in 2009.
'Other crime down' but murder rate 16% up on last year
STATE Minister for National Security Keith Bell and Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson championed the Christie administration’s efforts to fight crime yesterday even as the murder rate for 2015 outpaced last year’s figures.
157 people on bail killed within past six years
STATE Minister for National Security Keith Bell offered harrowing statistics in the Senate yesterday about the fate that sometimes await people who are released on bail.
Four charged with housebreaking
FOUR men were arraigned on a number of housebreaking and stealing charges in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday.
Haitian man shot in immigration swoop faces court charges
THE Haitian man “accidentally” shot in Eleuthera by a police officer during an immigration exercise earlier this month has been charged with illegal entry.
Bostwick lawyer grills police witness over second report
THE continuation of former Senator John Bostwick Jr’s ammunition possession trial saw tense moments during his lawyer’s cross-examination of prosecution witnesses yesterday.
Man accused of murdering waitress
A STEWARD of Baha Mar appeared in Magistrate’s Court yesterday accused of being the man who drove a car into a waitress and a bar owner in western New Providence, fatally wounding the woman.
Change in grounds of appeal over death in police custody
LAWYERS for two policemen challenging the Coroner’s Court ruling on Aaron Rolle’s death in police custody as unlawful have amended their grounds of appeal.
Four face court on firearms charges
THREE men and a woman, two of whom are customs officers, were arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday in connection with a major weapons bust near the Arawak Cay Port last week.
One man dead, one injured in shooting
ONE MAN is dead and another in serious condition in hospital after they were shot multiple times while walking through Montell Heights on Tuesday night.
New date for sentencing over schoolboy’s stabbing
A NEW sentencing date has been set for three men involved in an after school scuffle that led to the fatal stabbing of a CV Bethel student.
Lawyers claim abuse of process in firearms case
A CANCELLED arraignment for three men and a woman accused of being firearms traffickers drew the ire of their lawyers yesterday who called the move by Crown prosecutors an abuse of process.
Abaco man held over ammunition find
A 25-year-old Abaco man was arrested at the Grand Bahama International Airport on Sunday after a large quantity of ammunition was allegedly discovered in his luggage, police reported.
