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Bernard Pratt, 42, convicted of carnal knowledge
Friday, 23.07.2010, 09:24am
Sentencing has been set for Friday, July 23 for Bernard Pratt after he was convicted in the Supreme Court  of having sex with an 11-year-old student.  
Fed-up woman torches deadbeat mate
Friday, 23.07.2010, 09:22am
Laverne Longsworth   the mother of three children, has been released on $6,000  bail and ordered to return to court on August 26 , after she doused her common-law husband, 32-year-old  David White,  with kerosene and set him alight.
Masquerade cop hit the skids!  Search finds several police uniforms
Friday, 23.07.2010, 09:21am
Aaron Wilson, a 20-year-old San Ignacio man who has been masquerading as a police officer, is sitting behind bars at the Hattieville Prison this weekend, awaiting his day in court. 
Privy Council quashes Kirk Gordon's murder conviction
Friday, 23.07.2010, 09:19am
The Privy Council has quashed Kirk Gordon’s murder conviction and instead substituted a conviction for manslaughter, remitting his case to the Belize Court of Appeal for sentencing at its  next session in October. Gordon now faces a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison. The maximum is 25 years.
Jiovanni "Nose" Louriano, 33, executed in Hattieville
Friday, 23.07.2010, 09:18am
Police have neither suspect nor motive for the murder of Jiovanni “Nose” Louriano, who was shot in the head and chest on his way to his home in Hattieville’s Belizean-American new site at mile 17 on Sunday, July 18, 2010. 
Killer's bid for freedom rejected by Privy Council
Friday, 23.07.2010, 09:11am
Miguel Herrera Sr, 45, serving a life sentence at the Hattieville Prison  for the  kidnapping, rape  and murder  of his 19-year-old sister-in-law, got no reprieve from his appeal to the Privy Council, which upheld his life sentence.
Mark Seawell's extradition hearings will proceed
Friday, 23.07.2010, 09:10am
Mark Seawell lost the first round of his fight to avoid extradition to the United States last Friday July 16, when Justice John Muria ruled that the extradition case now before the Chief Magistrate can proceed, because the 1870 Extradition Treaty between the U.S. and the United Kingdom forms part of the Laws of Belize and is covered by the Belize Extradition Act of 2000.



 
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A police hero, Cpl. Collin Faux, who was shot and badly injured by Guatemalan outlaws at Calla Creek four years ago, is now back in civilian clothes.