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A judge yesterday discharged the jury in the trial of North Abaco MP Kirk Cornish.

The former girlfriend of North Abaco MP Kirk Cornish yesterday recounted times when he allegedly raped her, assaulted her and threatened her.

A 33-year-old police corporal, accused of sexually abusing his daughter for over two years, was yesterday granted $12,000 bail. The officer’s name has been withheld to protect his now-12-year-old daughter’s identity. Prosecutors allege that the father began molesting his daughter in November 2020 when she was 10 years old and the acts allegedly continued until February

A father who, according to a judge, committed the “ultimate breach of trust” by having an incestuous relationship with his teenage daughter, was yesterday sentenced to 25 years in prison. A jury unanimously convicted the 48-year-old businessman of two counts of incest last October following two hours of deliberations. The acts of incest took place in

A woman called as a prosecution witness in a murder case claimed police officers forced her to implicate the accused. Lakeisha Demeritte made the claim while testifying yesterday at the murder trial of Victoria Gibson. Prosecutors say Gibson, who’s on bail and wearing an ankle monitor, fatally stabbed Terenova Stubbs at Potter’s Cay Dock on March

Sentencing has once again been delayed for the man responsible for a fatal crash during the 2018 Randol Fawkes Labour Day parade. Twenty-seven-year-old Travis Sawyer pleaded guilty to four counts of manslaughter by negligence and eight counts of negligently causing harm last August. On June 1, 2018, Sawyer negligently caused the deaths of 41-year-old Tabitha Haye,

A judge on Monday heard sentencing arguments for a 48-year-old father who was convicted earlier this year of sexually abusing his teenage daughter in 2015 and 2016. The man’s name has been withheld to protect his daughter’s identity. The 22-year-old woman told a probation officer that being molested by the father, whom she yearned to have