More Unreliable Forensic Evidence
Anwar Muhammad, who had been accused and convicted by a jury of shooting and injuring Shantoine Prinston Burrows in August 2010, has had his name cleared. He spent 10 years…
Double Murder ‘These things don’t happen randomly’
01/05/2025 the island saw yet another shooting, described as ‘indiscriminate’ gun fire that claimed the lives of two people and left 3 others injured in a bar of 14 patrons.…
Wanted – Staff to Police ‘Paradise’
No Crime Figures for 2023 & 2024 – are the numbers being supressed intentionally? Is it coincidental that the island suffered one of its highest number of murders in 2024,…
Bermuda Police ‘Factually Incorrect’
The impartiality of ‘Policing Paradise’, a production to be aired by the BBC, was questioned following a Bermuda Police Service’s post which advises: ‘This TV programme is designed to show…
Crime Statistics … for 2022: assaults up almost 20%
Where are the crime figures for 2023 and 2024? Can they really be that difficult to produce? As for 2022, whilst offences recorded by police fell more than 8 per…
Policing in Bermuda – like a crime comedy drama?
2024 has seen what may be a record number of murders in Bermuda and, adding to the many unsolved killings, in November 2024, a conviction has been quashed due to…
‘Problem at the Heart of the Criminal Justice System in Bermuda’
05/2009 – A new DNA database was in the pipeline for Bermuda with the Police hoping it would crack cold cases and boost detection rates in new crimes. A three-year…
Another murder? I remember …
As the Bermuda Police Service issues yet another call for assistance in solving a growing list of unsolved homicides, the community faces the devastating news of a further fatal stabbing.…
One Less Murder on the Island
Bermuda’s murder number to date has been reduced by one as, more than a month after the incident, the constabulary reveals a 07/07/2024 death was suicide. The Bermuda Police Service…
Open Another Packets of Police … or else!
Darrin Simons, the chief of police, has apparently said ‘Officer numbers need to rise in order for the BPS to effectively respond to violent firearm crime’. It therefore appears, if…