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Read storyA man testified that police planted a gun on his friend after killing him and moving his body.
Trevon Stevens told the court that he and Lincoln Forbes were chased by police before stopping in front of a Garden Hills building.
He testified that once he stopped the car, Forbes got out and ran around the side of a building. It was then that he noticed for the first time that his friend had a gun, Stevens said.
A few seconds later, he heard a shot. After that, Stevens testified, police dragged Forbes to the front of the building, took a gun from a police car and threw it next to his body.
The witness said although he pleaded with officers, they were in no rush to call an ambulance for Forbes, who bled to death.
Lawyers for the police officer who has admitted to shooting Forbes said Stevens was lying. They also argued that there were inconsistencies in his story.
But on several points, Magistrate William Campbell said he did not agree that Stevens had contradicted himself.
The testimony was part of an ongoing Coroner's inquest into Forbes' death.
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Read storyA 33-year-old man was found dead with a handful of money on Wednesday night.
Police say Edvard Ficien was stabbed four times in a brutal attack. Ficien, a Haitian, died next to the Happy Hour Bar on Wulff Road.
Police Superintendent Elsworth Moss said while robbery could have been a motive for the attack, the fact that the the money was left behind suggests otherwise.
Ficien is The Bahamas' 12th murder for the year.
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Read storyA witness said the man accused of murdering Keith Carey dropped her to Police Headquarters on the day of the shooting.
The witness (whose name was withheld by court order) testified that Jamal Glinton, who is charged with killing Keith Carey in February of 2006, dropped her to her job at the Urban Renewal Project at the East Street Police station.
Her testimony matches another witness that says she was in a car with Glinton on the day of the shooting.
Prosecutors are hoping her testimony will establish a link between the car he used to drop her and the car they believe was used to leave the scene of the crime.
Glinton, along with Sean Brown and Dwight Knowles, is accused of shooting Carey at the Bank of the Bahamas on Harrold Road.
Knowles' cousin, Mickey Wright, testified that Knowles told him about a "situation" with a white Maxima and asked him to take it for repairs.
Wright said that he had been held by police for four days and pressured to tell them "what they wanted to hear".
The trial resumes Monday.
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Read storyThe country's top judge said Bahamians should not be satisfied with the current state of the legal system.
Chief Justice Sir Burton Hall told the Rotary Club of West Nassau that without public interest the judicial system cannot function as it should.
Sir Burton said public support might encourage people with the power to improve the state of the nation's judicial system to do so.
He also pointed out that The Bahamas' legal support staff are made up of civil servants that administrators have limited powers to hire, fire or discipline.
Sir Burton also said that while criticism of judges and their decisions is part of a working democracy, personal attacks and self-serving accusations serve no-one.
The Nassau Guardian
Read storyBahamians need to be less careless when it comes to fire, an official said after reporting the ninth fire in a week.
Fire Services Administrator Bradley Knowles said most fires are caused by carelessness.
A ten-year-old boy was taken to hospital after helping his mother put out a fire in their home on Wednesday afternoon.
It was the ninth structural fire reported in a week and the tenth call that unit of firefighters responded to that day, police reported.
Knowles said smoke detectors are essential for better fire prevention and advised placing them in a hallway near bedrooms.
In the kitchen and outside the bathroom are not good spots, he said, since smoke from cooking and steamy showers could lead to false alarms.
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