Crime Vault - Bahamas Court News https://bahamascourtnews.com Providing comprehensive coverage of court cases Sun, 20 Aug 2023 19:41:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 Man jailed for getting stepdaughter pregnant, taking her for abortion https://bahamascourtnews.com/man-jailed-for-getting-stepdaughter-pregnant-taking-her-for-abortion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=man-jailed-for-getting-stepdaughter-pregnant-taking-her-for-abortion Sun, 20 Aug 2023 18:59:04 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=6370 Nassau, BAHAMAS- In 2015, a man was jailed for sexually abusing his stepdaughter and taking her to get an abortion when she got pregnant. The 41-year-old was sentenced to 12 years in prison for unlawful sexual intercourse with a dependent and seven years in prison for abetment to abortion. The sentences ran concurrently. The convict’s […]

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]]> Not above the law: Cop jailed for shooting unarmed man in 1986 https://bahamascourtnews.com/not-above-the-law-cop-jailed-for-shooting-unarmed-man-in-1986/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=not-above-the-law-cop-jailed-for-shooting-unarmed-man-in-1986 Mon, 21 Feb 2022 10:34:10 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=5091 NASSAU- In the eighties, a police corporal who shot an unarmed man in the line of duty was jailed for attempted murder. On January 4, 1986, Corporal Leslie Bowe headed a team of four officers who were on patrol in Cutlass Bay, Cat Island. They were on an operation aimed at disrupting drug activity. While […]

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]]> Cop turned killer became school principal https://bahamascourtnews.com/cop-turned-killer-became-school-principal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cop-turned-killer-became-school-principal https://bahamascourtnews.com/cop-turned-killer-became-school-principal/#comments Sun, 09 Jan 2022 11:29:57 +0000 https://bahamascourtnews.com/?p=4880 Nassau, Bahamas- Back in 1983, a jilted cop shot and killed the mother of his two children after he saw her out with her new lover on her 23rd birthday. Stephen Sands Sr was charged with the murder of Sharlene Morley over the October 30 incident. However, on November 19, 1984 a jury convicted him […]

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]]> https://bahamascourtnews.com/cop-turned-killer-became-school-principal/feed/ 3 Nun’s killer freed in death penalty ruling https://bahamascourtnews.com/nuns-killer-freed-in-death-penalty-ruling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nuns-killer-freed-in-death-penalty-ruling Sun, 12 Dec 2021 07:07:51 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=4703 NASSAU- When Michelle Woodside was sentenced to hang for the infamous 1991 murder of Catholic Nun Sister Claire Hass, the death penalty was mandatory. However, a 2006 Privy Council decision that declared the mandatory imposition of the death penalty unconstitutional paved the way for her release from prison. On October 15, 1991 Our Lady’s Rectory […]

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]]> Bella’s death similar to another child abuse case https://bahamascourtnews.com/bellas-death-similar-to-another-child-abuse-case/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bellas-death-similar-to-another-child-abuse-case Sun, 05 Dec 2021 14:29:40 +0000 https://earth.hellafast.digital/?p=4622 NASSAU- The murder of four-year-old Bella Walker has sparked outrage across the country. Bella’s death evokes memories of a similar case 14 years ago: the death of one-year-old Levano Brown. He, too, allegedly sustained serious injuries at the hands of his mother’s lover while she was at work. Police arrested and charged Makisha Brown, 22, […]

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]]> Scottie Andrews: the boy killed 27 years before Marco Archer https://bahamascourtnews.com/scottie-andrews-the-boy-killed-27-years-before-marco-archer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scottie-andrews-the-boy-killed-27-years-before-marco-archer Thu, 18 Nov 2021 10:00:19 +0000 http://uxg.rig.mybluehost.me/?p=4470 NASSAU- When 11-year-old Marco Archer failed to return to his Brougham Street home from a trip to the neighbourhood store in 2011, no one would have known the impact his kidnapping and murder would have on the way Bahamian police deal with cases involving missing children. On November 29, the MARCO Alert, an emergency alert […]

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