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12/2021, Mr Osagi Bascome, a national level footballer, was murdered.  On 18 December 2021, Bascome was stabbed outside a restaurant on St. David’s Island, Bermuda, and later died. He was 23 (source).  Read more about the incident here.

01/2024, a jury found Raheem Wray not guilty of the murder at Supreme Court.  The murder investigation was referred to during the trial as ‘woeful’ – the errors and failings being described here.

Bermuda’s unsolved murders.

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