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murder charge

February 27, 2025

One guilty, one freed in murder of senior

Nearly four years after 67-year-old Catherine Pickering was gunned down while her daughter was robbed at their home in Paraquita Bay, about a dozen spectators sat in High Court on …

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by Allison Vaughn
June 1, 2023

Man charged with murder after stab victim dies

Last September, Purcell Estate resident Selroy Hanley was arrested and accused of stabbing Trevon Elliott repeatedly with an ice pick on Aug. 30 at the Purcell Estate basketball court. At …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
July 1, 2022

Belle Vue man charged in fatal shooting

Akeem Durrant, 35, of Belle Vue, was charged with murder in the shooting death of Corey Butler on the night of June 21, Police Information Officer Diane Drayton stated on …

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by Joey Waldinger
April 8, 2022

3 accused of Daway murder walk free

Three defendants couldn’t hold in their elation the morning of April 4, hugging and whispering excitedly as Justice Richard Floyd announced in High Court that four years after they were …

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by Dana Kampa
September 17, 2021

Five charged with murder in inmate’s death

Police yesterday morning arrested and charged five inmates in relation to the fatal May 30 stabbing of Nickail Chambers at Her Majesty’s Prison, Police Information Officer Diane Drayton said yesterday. …

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by Joey Waldinger
October 22, 2020

Man charged with Purcell Estate murder

Free Bottom resident Royden Sebastian was charged with murder last Thursday in Magistrates’ Court, where Director of Public Prosecutions Tiffany Scatliffe-Esprit alleged that he fatally shot George Burrows last month …

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by Joey Waldinger
October 15, 2020

Man charged with Purcell Estate murder

Royden Sebastian, 37, of Free Bottom, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with the Sept. 2 murder of George Burrows, police said on Tuesday. Mr. Burrows was shot to death …

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by Joey Waldinger
June 4, 2018

Alcedo Tyson’s life sentence for murder is set aside

The Court of Appeal recently ruled that a small subsection of the BVI Jury Act is unconstitutional, and, in the process, overturned a murder conviction almost half a decade old. …

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by Amanda Ulrich

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