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Body with gunshot wounds discovered

A BODY of a man was found near RM Bailey Park on Monday in an apparent murder.

Man remanded after allegedly threatening man with gun

A MAN was remanded to prison on Friday after he allegedly endangered a man’s life with a gun last December.

Man accused of box cutter stabbing granted bail

A MAN was granted $5,000 bail on Friday after he was accused of stabbing someone with a box cutter on Boyd Road last week.

Man accused of stealing granted bail

A MAN was granted $6,000 bail after he was accused of stealing $2,279.29 worth of property in a recent house robbery in New Providence.

Teens accused of having 9mm pistol and two AK-47s remanded to Simpson Penn

A teenager admitted yesterday to having a loaded gun that he threw out of a car window during a police chase in Montell Heights last weekend.

Man accused of threatening someone with gun

A MAN was granted $6,000 bail yesterday after he was accused of using a gun to threaten another man on Wulff Road last month.

Man admitting to having drugs gets probation

A MAN was given a conditional discharge after admitting to having drugs in New Providence earlier this week.

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Nygard: I could die if I go to court

PETER Nygard is struggling to find legal representation in Canada two weeks before he is sentenced for sexually assaulting five women between 1988 and 2005.

Murder ruling thrown out over ‘tenuous’ conviction

A MAN who was sentenced to 40 years behind bars for allegedly killing an American sailor in 2013 had his murder conviction quashed yesterday after the Privy Council ruled that evidence in the case was “so tenuous as to be incapable of supporting a safe conviction for murder”.

Man shot by police ‘fired replica gun at officers’

AN officer has testified that on the night police killed Walter Johnson, the suspect had fired a replica gun at them.

$7,000 bail for woman accused of maiming

A WOMAN was granted $7,000 bail after being accused of maiming a person on King Street last week.

Bail for phone theft suspect

A MAN was granted bail after he was accused of stealing a phone last year.

Four years’ jail over loaded gun

A 33-YEAR-OLD man was sentenced to four years in prison after he admitted last week to having a loaded gun.

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Two men shot to death in less than 24 hours

A MAN was shot dead last night in the second murder of yesterday and the 53rd murder of the year.

Officer testifies that victim had replica gun and wore makeshift bullet-proof vest

JURORS in the Coroner’s Court yesterday heard that a man police killed in 2022 had a fake gun and a makeshift bullet-proof vest.