Looks like it's not safe to travel outside the U.S. anymore. This 1996 incident just reiterates why we should boycott Aruba and most importantly be aware of your surroundings and stay alert to what is going on around you.
Use common sense. Don't leave your group of friends. Have a plan. Keep an eye out for your friends as well. You don't have to be a 'babysitter', but as a friend, you should be wary of anyone you don't know...especially if you are a woman in another country.
Tourist women are the number one targets in other countries.
The Brutal Torture, Gang Rape, Sodomization and Murder of Becky Middleton Rebecca
(Becky) was a Canadian tourist visitor to Bermuda, only 17 years old. She was staying with her friend Jasmine, daughter of local resident Canadian Rick Meens and his Bermudian wife.
On the night of July 3, 1996, after going to the Town of St. George to attend the Wednesday evening Harbour Night (7 to 10 pm), she and Jasmine visited the White Horse Tavern bar and restaurant. Then she and Jasmine went to the home of another friend in the town for about 45 minutes or so. At 1:16 am, more than an hour after the last bus from St. George's had left, Jasmine Meens made her first call from there to Radio Cabs. The dispatcher said a cab was on its way. Jasmine called again shortly afterward. The dispatcher said the same thing. They went outside again to await its arrival. After the third call, Jasmine became very upset, and the woman again promised. This was a little after 2:15 a.m.
Finally, in desperation, the two girls, Becky and Jasmine, believing they had no other choices, accepted an offer of a ride home from young men on motor cycles.
Jasmine arrived home safely but Becky was abducted - kidnapped - by two young men, taken to a desolate place at Ferry Reach in Bermuda, brutally stabbed and cut 35 times, beaten, tortured, gang raped repeatedly and viciously, sodomized, brutalized and murdered.
Dr. Keith Cunningham and Dr. James Johnston completed an autopsy on the mutilated body of Becky. Both discovered anal and vaginal trauma, along with some 35 cuts, five of which were fatal. Also, the Police and prison physician Dr. Henry Pearse said her body was so covered in blood that it was hard to determine her exact injuries (at the site).
He also confirmed in writing that she had been raped again and again and reported the torture wounds at the top of her head, forehead, neck and throat. It was the worst, most brutal, most animal sexually-depraved, most violent and inhuman racial murder of any woman anywhere in the world.
News of the horrific, depraved murder of Rebecca (Becky) was flashed around the world when it happened. To date, it has been a notoriously botched murder case. The British and Bermudian authorities have done nothing so far to investigate it thoroughly and bring the perpetrators to full justice at long last. Scotland Yard was not called in, the perpetrators were never charged with murder. Bermuda's Attorney General, who had conducted every other murder trial during his tenure, declined to handle the case.
Two men were arrested over Rebecca's killing. Kirk Mundy, then 21, claimed to have had consensual sex with her and blamed co-accused Justis Smith, then 17, for the killing. Before Police had completed forensic tests, prosecutors accepted Mundy's guilty plea to a charge of accessory after the fact. He was sentenced to five years behind bars.
Smith was tried in November 1998 for premeditated murder, but halfway through the trial, Supreme Court Judge Vincent Meerabux ordered jurors to acquit him, saying there was no forensic evidence such as blood or semen tying Smith to the scene. The initial investigation was handled by police officers with only limited experience in relation to murder investigations.
The entire police investigation was criticized as inadequate and prosecution decisions were condemned as inept when one man was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge and the other was acquitted on a questionable ruling by the trial judge.
Bermuda has not regarded it as a crime so inhumane that the killers deserved the maximum penalty. The men who raped, sodomized and racially murdered Becky have not been banned from entering Canada, the USA, the United Kingdom or Europe.
There seem to be conflicting reports on whether or not a claim was ever made to the Bermuda Government under its Criminal Injuries Compensation Board methodology, if such a claim was legally possible, or for any other compensation, for the murder, sodomy and rape of Becky in the country the World Bank has rated as the richest in the world in per capita income. (The local Criminal Injuries Compensation provision is still very low compared to other countries, even since it was increased to $100,000 - the maximum was only $70,000 when Becky was murdered, etc).
The British Government has not offered to assist in any way despite for what occured in Bermuda has a British Overseas Territory. Nor has the Canadian Government offered to assist in such a prosecution for what happened to one of its citizens.
On the night of July 3, 1996, after going to the Town of St. George to attend the Wednesday evening Harbour Night (7 to 10 pm), she and Jasmine visited the White Horse Tavern bar and restaurant. Then she and Jasmine went to the home of another friend in the town for about 45 minutes or so. At 1:16 am, more than an hour after the last bus from St. George's had left, Jasmine Meens made her first call from there to Radio Cabs. The dispatcher said a cab was on its way. Jasmine called again shortly afterward. The dispatcher said the same thing. They went outside again to await its arrival. After the third call, Jasmine became very upset, and the woman again promised. This was a little after 2:15 a.m.
Finally, in desperation, the two girls, Becky and Jasmine, believing they had no other choices, accepted an offer of a ride home from young men on motor cycles.
Jasmine arrived home safely but Becky was abducted - kidnapped - by two young men, taken to a desolate place at Ferry Reach in Bermuda, brutally stabbed and cut 35 times, beaten, tortured, gang raped repeatedly and viciously, sodomized, brutalized and murdered.
Dr. Keith Cunningham and Dr. James Johnston completed an autopsy on the mutilated body of Becky. Both discovered anal and vaginal trauma, along with some 35 cuts, five of which were fatal. Also, the Police and prison physician Dr. Henry Pearse said her body was so covered in blood that it was hard to determine her exact injuries (at the site).
He also confirmed in writing that she had been raped again and again and reported the torture wounds at the top of her head, forehead, neck and throat. It was the worst, most brutal, most animal sexually-depraved, most violent and inhuman racial murder of any woman anywhere in the world.
News of the horrific, depraved murder of Rebecca (Becky) was flashed around the world when it happened. To date, it has been a notoriously botched murder case. The British and Bermudian authorities have done nothing so far to investigate it thoroughly and bring the perpetrators to full justice at long last. Scotland Yard was not called in, the perpetrators were never charged with murder. Bermuda's Attorney General, who had conducted every other murder trial during his tenure, declined to handle the case.
Two men were arrested over Rebecca's killing. Kirk Mundy, then 21, claimed to have had consensual sex with her and blamed co-accused Justis Smith, then 17, for the killing. Before Police had completed forensic tests, prosecutors accepted Mundy's guilty plea to a charge of accessory after the fact. He was sentenced to five years behind bars.
Smith was tried in November 1998 for premeditated murder, but halfway through the trial, Supreme Court Judge Vincent Meerabux ordered jurors to acquit him, saying there was no forensic evidence such as blood or semen tying Smith to the scene. The initial investigation was handled by police officers with only limited experience in relation to murder investigations.
The entire police investigation was criticized as inadequate and prosecution decisions were condemned as inept when one man was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge and the other was acquitted on a questionable ruling by the trial judge.
Bermuda has not regarded it as a crime so inhumane that the killers deserved the maximum penalty. The men who raped, sodomized and racially murdered Becky have not been banned from entering Canada, the USA, the United Kingdom or Europe.
There seem to be conflicting reports on whether or not a claim was ever made to the Bermuda Government under its Criminal Injuries Compensation Board methodology, if such a claim was legally possible, or for any other compensation, for the murder, sodomy and rape of Becky in the country the World Bank has rated as the richest in the world in per capita income. (The local Criminal Injuries Compensation provision is still very low compared to other countries, even since it was increased to $100,000 - the maximum was only $70,000 when Becky was murdered, etc).
The British Government has not offered to assist in any way despite for what occured in Bermuda has a British Overseas Territory. Nor has the Canadian Government offered to assist in such a prosecution for what happened to one of its citizens.
On April 1, 2006, The Royal Gazette reported that Bermuda's Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Vinette Graham-Allen ruled that Justis Smith and Kirk Mundy could not be retried on sexual assault charges "as it broke the well-established law that a man should not be twice punished for an offence arising out of the same facts."
To run sequential trials for offences on an ascending scale of gravity could be deemed an abuse of the process of the court, she argued. She said the constitution guaranteed an individual cannot be re-tried for the same offence or any other offence for which he could have been convicted at the earlier trial. It is understood permission is needed from the DPP in order for a private prosecution to take place.
The DPP said the same evidence which formed the basis for charging Mundy in 1996 would be the same evidence for launching a trial on sexual assault. “No new evidence has surfaced since his conviction, to justify the preferment of fresh charges.” New charges would amount to a breach of Mundy's constitutional rights and an abuse of the courts and powers of the DPP, said Ms Graham-Allen. She argued the same protection of the Constitution applied to Smith who had been acquitted by the Supreme Court. That decision was upheld after being reviewed by higher courts.
In the review, which looked at the record of all the evidence provided plus the legal judgments on the case, Ms Graham-Allen said Rebecca had been sexually assaulted and there was evidence that which cast doubt on Mundy's claim of consensual sex. But that should have been put before a jury as it had been available to the Crown prior to Mundy's committal to trial in November 1996. Although there was no direct evidence to suggest Smith had sexually assaulted the teen, it had still been open for the Crown to prosecute under that offence as he could have been deemed to have taken part by aiding the perpetrator.
She added: “Further forensic reports subsequently received post-committal confirms and supports the contention that the issue of consent raised by Mr. Mundy in his admission to the Police could have been refuted.” If the DPP did launch a new prosecution the pair had ripe grounds to claim an abuse of the process on grounds of delay and pre-trial publicity, said Ms Graham-Allen.
Vinette Graham-Allen came to Bermuda from Jamaica in 2000 to take up the post of senior crown counsel and was promoted to principal crown counsel later. She became Director of Public Prosecutions in May 2004. Mrs. Graham-Allen had earlier stated that her ultimate goal is to prosecute war criminals in The Hague.
In distinct contrast to what has not happened in Bermuda: The government of Thailand acted quickly and decisively to prosecute to the fullest two Thai fishermen who in late 2005 raped and murdered a British tourist. In early 2006, they were sentenced to death. The Thai government apologized to the world and promised it would respond appropriately to the shocking crime. By doing so, it has kept its word and its actions help protect its tourism industry.
On March 20, 2006 in London, it was announced that a teenager who murdered a schoolgirl by knifing her through the heart at a party will serve a minimum of 14 years in prison. The Old Bailey was told Beatriz Martins-Paes took two knives to the birthday celebration in east London. She plunged one of them into Charlotte Polius, 15, after a petty incident on the dance floor.
On April 1, 2006 in London, it was announced that Thomas Waddell, 19, who raped and murdered 34 year old Farah Noor Adams, a mother power-walking along a popular riverside park in Glasgow, Scotland, was sentenced to at least 16 years in prison.
On April 11, 2006, rapist Robert Greens, 28, who on May 15, 2005 carried out a brutal sex attack on a 19 year old Dutch student near the Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland - made famous by the novel the Da Vinci Code - was jailed for 10 years by the High Court in Edinburgh, Scotland.. In mid-April 2006, the case was thrust into the US national television spotlight. Prime-time Fox News crime show On The Record – hosted by leading presenter Greta Van Susteren – examined the heavily criticised investigation into Rebecca’s death and why no one has been convicted of her murder.
The TV program examined the way prosecutors handled the case against two men who were arrested over the killing, Justis Smith and Kirk Mundy and why, in 1996, before Police had completed forensic tests, prosecutors accepted Mundy’s guilty plea to a charge of accessory after the fact. He was sentenced to five years behind bars.
Smith was acquitted of a murder charge in November 1998 after Supreme Court judge Vincent Meerabux ruled there was no case to answer. That decision was branded “astonishing” by London’s Privy Council.
To run sequential trials for offences on an ascending scale of gravity could be deemed an abuse of the process of the court, she argued. She said the constitution guaranteed an individual cannot be re-tried for the same offence or any other offence for which he could have been convicted at the earlier trial. It is understood permission is needed from the DPP in order for a private prosecution to take place.
The DPP said the same evidence which formed the basis for charging Mundy in 1996 would be the same evidence for launching a trial on sexual assault. “No new evidence has surfaced since his conviction, to justify the preferment of fresh charges.” New charges would amount to a breach of Mundy's constitutional rights and an abuse of the courts and powers of the DPP, said Ms Graham-Allen. She argued the same protection of the Constitution applied to Smith who had been acquitted by the Supreme Court. That decision was upheld after being reviewed by higher courts.
In the review, which looked at the record of all the evidence provided plus the legal judgments on the case, Ms Graham-Allen said Rebecca had been sexually assaulted and there was evidence that which cast doubt on Mundy's claim of consensual sex. But that should have been put before a jury as it had been available to the Crown prior to Mundy's committal to trial in November 1996. Although there was no direct evidence to suggest Smith had sexually assaulted the teen, it had still been open for the Crown to prosecute under that offence as he could have been deemed to have taken part by aiding the perpetrator.
She added: “Further forensic reports subsequently received post-committal confirms and supports the contention that the issue of consent raised by Mr. Mundy in his admission to the Police could have been refuted.” If the DPP did launch a new prosecution the pair had ripe grounds to claim an abuse of the process on grounds of delay and pre-trial publicity, said Ms Graham-Allen.
Vinette Graham-Allen came to Bermuda from Jamaica in 2000 to take up the post of senior crown counsel and was promoted to principal crown counsel later. She became Director of Public Prosecutions in May 2004. Mrs. Graham-Allen had earlier stated that her ultimate goal is to prosecute war criminals in The Hague.
In distinct contrast to what has not happened in Bermuda: The government of Thailand acted quickly and decisively to prosecute to the fullest two Thai fishermen who in late 2005 raped and murdered a British tourist. In early 2006, they were sentenced to death. The Thai government apologized to the world and promised it would respond appropriately to the shocking crime. By doing so, it has kept its word and its actions help protect its tourism industry.
On March 20, 2006 in London, it was announced that a teenager who murdered a schoolgirl by knifing her through the heart at a party will serve a minimum of 14 years in prison. The Old Bailey was told Beatriz Martins-Paes took two knives to the birthday celebration in east London. She plunged one of them into Charlotte Polius, 15, after a petty incident on the dance floor.
On April 1, 2006 in London, it was announced that Thomas Waddell, 19, who raped and murdered 34 year old Farah Noor Adams, a mother power-walking along a popular riverside park in Glasgow, Scotland, was sentenced to at least 16 years in prison.
On April 11, 2006, rapist Robert Greens, 28, who on May 15, 2005 carried out a brutal sex attack on a 19 year old Dutch student near the Rosslyn Chapel, Scotland - made famous by the novel the Da Vinci Code - was jailed for 10 years by the High Court in Edinburgh, Scotland.. In mid-April 2006, the case was thrust into the US national television spotlight. Prime-time Fox News crime show On The Record – hosted by leading presenter Greta Van Susteren – examined the heavily criticised investigation into Rebecca’s death and why no one has been convicted of her murder.
The TV program examined the way prosecutors handled the case against two men who were arrested over the killing, Justis Smith and Kirk Mundy and why, in 1996, before Police had completed forensic tests, prosecutors accepted Mundy’s guilty plea to a charge of accessory after the fact. He was sentenced to five years behind bars.
Smith was acquitted of a murder charge in November 1998 after Supreme Court judge Vincent Meerabux ruled there was no case to answer. That decision was branded “astonishing” by London’s Privy Council.
144 comments:
Good afternoon,
My children and I lived in Bermuda at the time and the whole population of Bermuda was under utter shock. The children were terrified and checked the doors several times before we went to sleep at night. Bermuda being such a small intertwined community makes it difficult to stand up for what you believe in.
This is unbelievable and until today, I cry over Rebecca. It just confirms that anything can happen and if such an obvious crime goes unpunished what cannot happen.
I feel so very deeply for a family that will probably never be able to grieve in peace, tortured by so much horror from such a "nicely groomed" environment. But believe my experience, there are some wonderful loving people in Bermuda but there are also some deprived nasty souls and they are not the ordinary common people they are sometimes in the tops of tops of glamourous well thinking Bermuda personae, wearing a mask of honesty hiding their true nature.
Nessy
As a tourist visiting Bermuda in the summer of 2003, I was raped in Hamilton. The police treated me as though I had committed the crime. It was humiliating and horrifying. I am fortunate to have lived through the ordeal and my heart goes out to the family of Rebecca Middleton. The incompetence of the Bermudian athorities is blatant and repugnant. It is a tragedy that this information is kept secret enough for people to unknowingly send their daughters on vacation to a place we are not valued or kept safe from harm. I am quite certain my rapist is still walking freely around Bermuda as the police there did little or nothing to persue him. Perhaps one day reform will come and there will be justice for Miss Middleton. In the meanntime on a very small island filled with unsuspecting tourists (many of them young girls exposed to alcohol) there are at the very least three brutal rapists roaming free to repeat their crimes (and as sexual deviants often do) are likely to do so. I share this information in hopes that perhaps one more person will decide to vacation elsewhere. Bermuda is dangerous.
My sister was brutally attacked while in Bermuda and I can think of four or five more who I have heard of which this has happened to. While I understand that criminal deviants exist everywhere what seems apparent to me is that there is no fear of the local authourities as penalties are not inflicted because of a totally inadequate criminal justice system. The locals seem to accept it as the norm and there is a general fear of these deviants which I would hope that there are a few in a sea of many.....To date I can think of many people who will tell persons not go to Bermuda!
Carbonbiped
My heart goes out to the Parents family and friends of Rebecca and to the girls who say they have been attacked in Bermuda, I am a Londoner and live in London and have lived and worked on the Islands I would just like to say that the law in the UK has changed and therefore the law in Bermuda has as well the courts now allow for a second prosecution of a defendant in serious cases where new eviedence is available this means no double jepardy I only hope that if it is the wish of rebecca's parents that the authorities go after that pair of scumbags
I appreciate the attention to these heinous events around the world but was offended by some of your word choice. Suggesting that this is "the worst", or "most violent", or "most racially motivated", etc. diminishes the experience of rape for every other victim. Some crimes are worse than others, yes. But when discussing rape, I believe women would agree suggesting Rebecca's death is any worse than the gang rapes in the Sudan, the ones happening everyday in the US, or anywhere in the world is insensitive. Be wary of your word choice.
When a Judge allows a criminal to escape, he is putting more young women at risk and maybe if his daughter was the victim, the judge would have acted differently. The goo dfar outnumber the bad, and when you have a chance to take one of the rapists off the street, and it is not done, that is a crime too. His judgement will be done but only by our creator. Sad that others will be at risk in the meantime. Shame on you Judge Vincent Meerabux!!!!!!
When a Judge allows a criminal to escape, he is putting more young women at risk and maybe if his daughter was the victim, the judge would have acted differently. The goo dfar outnumber the bad, and when you have a chance to take one of the rapists off the street, and it is not done, that is a crime too. His judgement will be done but only by our creator. Sad that others will be at risk in the meantime. Shame on you Judge Vincent Meerabux!!!!!!
God bless becky and all the girls and boy who have been attacked or raped or any other discusting act. I have a 3 year old son and I'm scared for when he is older, this world is a horrible place to live these days as a young woman myself I have already been attacked a few times and escaped an attempted rape I just count myself lucky, but I pray for all who have been a victom of crime may you all rest in piece or survive strong and the attackers rot in hell! God bless!!!
I lived in Bermuda for many years and still remember this terrible murder taking place. My heart goes out to the family and I just hope that some day soon the people who committed this terrible crime will be found guilty and made to pay.
Anne
My family wanted to plan a trip to Bermuda for our annual family vacation (2011). Accordingly, I started doing research on Bermuda and ran across this website. I do not need to research any further. No way am I taking my family to a place where rapists and murderes run free. Further, I'm not giving my hard earned dollars to a country and it's people who can't bother to stand up with some spine and convict criminals. If there is no justice then crims is rapant as far as I am concerned. IT only takes one.
Cinamin,
Hi I am a Bermudian I have lived in bermuda all my life. When rebecca was raped I was about 5 years old. I don't remember the rape but I have heard about it. I feel real offend by these comments. Bermuda is not a dangerous islnad. yes our police are eff'd up and come on a call only when wanted but saying we are a dangerous place is uncalled for. Kirk Munday on this date exactly is behind bars! My condolences go out to the Middleton Family.
You know when people start trying to defend the place they live when something like this happens to me that is really ignorant. What matters about the whole message is that a beaufiful young lady was brutally raped and murdered. I personally knew Becky. What happen't to her was COMPLETELY BRUTAL and no one, NO ONE, should have to endure what she did! What if this was your daughter, or your sister, or your mother, or your wife wife, or your friend. Think about things before you say them. If someone wants to make a comment about the place that it happen't...THEN LET THEM!
The man that killed her was Jamacian not Bermudian. Lets get that straight.
Well, I'm so saddened by this event.. even 16 years later. Now Bermuda is facing the harvest of it's sewing.... Justis Smith has been charged with home invasion. Bermuda deserves the disrespect it gets. The whole world should boycott Bermuda until the correct punishment be issued.
I just want everyone to know that this doesn't only happen in Bermuda. It can happen ANYWHERE you travel. And it's not a common crime committed. Shall we recall all the worse murders that have been committed in America?!
I am in now way trying to down play what has happened or the attacks on tourist mentioned, but I think that when people come to Bermuda, they think and act as if they have entered heaven. On vacation anywhere in the world this can happen. You should be on your guard anywhere and have a designated person or have a buddy that you travel with at all times. And not get so inebriated that you can't defend yourself or make good decisions. Never anywhere even in my home, Bermuda, am I going to get into a car or on a bike with strangers. Never am I going to walk through a dark alley or behind a building alone. And if I have to I will be on alert with my phone out and my keys in hand to at least try to defend myself. Things like this happen in Canada, they happen in the states, they sure as hell have happened in Mexico with students going for spring break. So don't go anywhere in the world thinking oh nothing can happen to me here. Make good decisions. Anything can happen to you anywhere. I'm not saying it's not smith and mundy's fault. It is!!! And I would never be able to look them in the face let alone be around them if I ever met them. But for future reference to all. To anyone going on vacation anywhere or even when your home. Make smart decisions. Be safe. Don't think that because you are in a comfortable environment or because everyone seems so nice and welcoming that nothing can happen. There are sick deranged people everywhere. Be aware of that fact!
And I believe that Bermuda authorities definitely handled the case sloppily and should find a way to rectify the matter. But that probably won't happen. The Bermuda government has been a mess for a long time. And until something changes it will continue to be.
My brother lived in that hell hole ..He died there but shood have been alive to day .His body was emptied of his organs and as of to day 6 years later we have not had answers .A truly evil place .
How long will this go on? I have had a family member killed in Bermuda brutally as well, but I have learned that vengeance is the Lord's. Those that did this evil to that young girl will have to pay the price for their actions. It is not Bermuda that killed her, it was two sick people who could tear a body apart so cruelly and stomach it. I could not do it. Sick minds did this, not Bermuda, so I am asking her parents to heal. You are holding on to so much anger and hurt, and I understand, but I think that you could make something positive out of this. Education for teenagers about protection for themselves. We know you visit Europe and people prey on people and place them, against their will, into the sex slave trade. Bermuda is still a beautiful Island, but you have to educate yourselves that they still have to protect themselves. Make sure your children are comfortable to call on you know matter where they find themselves and what position they find themselves in. Again I sympathize with the family, but let her rest in peace.
Well put. It is not Bermuda that did this, two deranged minds. They are every where.
I am Bermudian too. I am not ignorant. I have enough common sense to know that I still have to protect myself no matter where you go.. I am not saying she deserved to die, she really didn't deserve this, but all this is not bringing her back, and there is no way we can get justice. Not the first time it has happened in Bermuda, or Florida for that matter. So let the young lady rest in peace.
What happened to Becky was horrible but what I have never been able to understand is this:
Why were underaged girls allowed to go out drinking alone? What kind of person did Becky's parents trust to care for her who would allow her to go out and get drunk underage.
When the Taxi never showed up, why didn't the girls call the Rick Meens to come and get them rather than get rides with complete strangers? I am sure they have been told not to take rides from strangers
Why wasn't Rick Meens out looking for the girls after Midnight given they were underage and in his care?
There was a Police Station right in St. Georges.....why not go there for help rather than get a ride from strangers?
Well, its her and her parents fault.the parents let her out not knowing where they are who there with.she shouldnt have went on the bike like thats dopy.
I can't believe that someone actually blamed her parents for trusting that Bermuda was safe enough to allow their daughters to go out. You must be either a criminal yourself or just the most cold, ignorant person alive!
CRAP!!!!
Of course this can happen anywhere. NO ONE SAID IT COULDN'T. But in America we punish our rapists and we execute our killers. In Bermuda they are treated as if they didn't do anything wrong. Savages
1. We are not talking about anywhere else. We are talking about Bermuda. Try to stay on topic. And it is Bermuda that doesn't have a problem with what these men did
How about this, Instead of blaming the victim and saying teenagers need to be educated to protect themselves from the savages that roam around Bermuda, you instead choose to educate your savages not to rape, torture and murder the tourists. Okay?
It's not crap.. You bermudians are CRAP..!
I hope bermuda pays price for such atrocity. Thing is nothing was done about it.
EXACTLY!
Only a sick mind blames the victim of a crime for what happened to them. It was the fault of the criminals--not Becky. The criminals could have kept driving past the girls and not bothered them. They chose to stop--and prey on Becky like animals. They are filthy garbage, and Bermuda with it's useless police department, worthless judges and cowardly government is not a place I would ever want to visit.
It may be two deranged minds that committed the murder but Bermuda did not even try to get justice for this young woman !!! Pooh Pooh on Bermuda !!!!
You are incredibly stupid.
I am sure Mr Meens felt responsible to some extent, just as I would if she had been my guest. But the facts are that they called for a taxi three times and it didn't turn up. I live in Bermuda I have had that experience myself and I know it is very common. Why don't you blame the taxi company/driver, rather than Mr Meens? I'm just making a point that this is as out of place a question as the ones you are proposing.
In any case - yes, the girls made what proved to be a very bad decision, I am sure based on the fact that Bermuda "is a safe place with very low violent crime where nothing ever happens..."
The point that you are missing, is that this is not about trying the girls, their parents or their host, it is about the LACK OF JUSTICE when Bermuda's system failed completely to do its job and let one of the murderers free and the other one get away with a 5 year sentence in spite of having circumstantial and hard evidence on both of them.
I was searching to find out what happened with the appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, as the last reference I could find on it was from years ago that it was still pending consideration 4 years after being filed. Has it now been accepted or rejected or is it still pending evaluation?
DO NOT VISIT BERMUDA people
We are not debating with the fact that there are murders in the world sick and deranged all around the world its the Bermuda justice system the whole process and the way this case was mishandled and if such a horrific case be mishandled juts imagine what else will be mishandled. Would never go to Bermuda not even through a cruise.
I find this whole thing truly sad. I find the fact that this happened sad. I find the fact that people are placing blame and judging an island truly sad when it can be argued that the "what ifs" and " should haves" are tremendous. From stranger danger to taxii service to law enforcement etc.. I find it sad that people are placing a label on this island and forget that this event not only horrified foreigners but Bermudas own people. Bermudians had a sense of safety and this situation took that away. Do you forget there are human beings with families on the island? With teenage daughters? Also, Bermudians will say that these things happen all over the world. Not to downplay it, but to just say no matter where you go, possibly you will be faced with danger so to write off one island is ridiculous. Write off every place on this earth that has a history of violence including possibly the place you were born and raised(wherever that is). Can we get some crime statistics from back during that year into the equation and compare it with neighborhoods and areas around the world? This only comes into play because people are labeling the island so yes...it is relevant. It needs to be considered. It doesn't take away from how horrible this is or the fact justice should be served. Honestly there are too many ignorant comments on both sides of the fence. This shouldn't have happened period. She deserves justice period. There is no way of sweeping this under the carpet...it happened.. so any Bermudian who is like let's move on... cut it out and keep that opinion to yourself. It's horrible make it so we have learned enough and have been informed enough that the past "should haves" are less likely to reoccur (on all parts- traveling tourists- judicial system etc). When possible...make sure justice happens and stop cursing the island. Nowhere is perfect and this is a very unfortunate reminder of that.
I am planning a vacation, Bermuda is definitely OFF my list!
Someone has been raped and murdered in every country in the world... I am not trying to downplay the incident, but to say don't visit or live somewhere were a violent crime has happened in the past two decades is kind of silly...
I second that!!
I saw this on Own today and i felt so much pain and sadness,my heart goes out to her parents.And i can not see how in the world they could let these animals get away with this crime.I would never go on vacation there.Please someone take this case up and give her parents the closer they deserve and let this beautiful child Rest in Peace.
I have read and absorbed everyone's comments....some are extreme and others qualified. I have been visiting Bermuda since 2008 on my Honeymoon and then every year since on holidays and was aware of this vile crime but not the details. I have felt completely safe on this island more so than my own country at times. It is not the Island or the Islanders that should be abused in this forum but the government and the sick perpetrators....I am aware that the Bermudian government has recently had a shake up and a new PM is in power. lets hope he will re-open this case and the Middleton family will receive their justice. Stop verbally abusing people on this forum. Use your energy to petition the Bermudian Government to have the case re-opened and let her family finally grieve in peace.
When I visited once we had looked at Foder's guide to find new restaurants and bars to eat. When we asked a Taxi driver to take us to a particular bar which had been rated in Foder's they refused to take my husband and I because it had recently had problems and the Taxi driver (although it was a good fare) was more concerned about our welfare than getting money out of tourists...so please be careful when you decide to tar everyone with the same brush...it simply isn't true. We all need to learn from these terrible crimes from victim and family support to better policing and laws safeguarding victims and their families and make our families aware that they need to be vigilant EVERYWHERE!!!!!
Bermuda should be blacklisted by travel firms and airlines, 'til the useles jackass authority get off their asses and arrest the scumbag.
I agree that the legal system needs to be updated and rid of people who are being paid to do a job they hav no experiance doing.a horrendous crime commited and if it was my child I would never ever giv up until justice was done god knows dem two people who commited dis act will be punished in dew time but I guess dat is little comfort to her parents as she is no longer alive may she rest in peace!! And until burmuda accepts and acts on future crimes appropriatly I would not go there for no love or money that girls murder is on their concience hope all those people involved in da case sleep good at nite!!!!!!
Two very sick individuals who are gonna rot on hell!!!
I never knew dis girl or her family but I feel so bad for them I hope they get the closure they deserve after so long. As for the authoritys and the people who investigated this murder SHAME on you and your shabby system that clearly FAVOURS MURDERERS and not the VICTIMS...hope u can all sleep at nite and GOD forbid anything like this never happens to anyone in your family... may Rebecca rest in peace and her family find some peace in their lives as well god bless them.!!!
That is truly the point. Bermuda system fails, even as of now.
If these assholes can not be sentenced to death then EVERYONE involved should be charged with abiding first degree murder including Judge Vincent Meerabux. As we know what and how it happened and yet they walk free.
Justice has to severed. If USA can walk into other countries over terrorists then I for one think Canada has a right to come and get these murders.
I for one am no longer going there just for that reason. But knowing who these murders are I would be seeking them out for a little justice if I was to go there.
It is disgusting and sickening to see how these killers got away with this murder....they should have been hang
These killers should have been hang
Well said, lawlessness
Never going to Bermuda - it is off my list after watching CI. This poor girl died for nothing. Yes anything can happen in any country but justice is served in most. In Bermuda it seems the justice system is completely useless as criminals can run free doing their shit. Never going there - and neither should you!
That's fine to let Becky rest in peace but what about her family and friends; they will never live in peace until the killer(s) are behind bars. They will strike again.
I make sure too no body go to Bermuda, it's all murder
These boys obviously got a slap to the hand, so sad My prayers for the family. As for me I will never travel there and I will pass this story on to anyone I hear of traveling there.
You know what? Yes, there are deranged people in every country in the world. Hell, you might be living with one, and not even know it. I think the point of everyone getting pissed off about this case is not about the people of Bermuda. It's about the way their judicial system handles crimes of this nature. No, it's not the only country who's laws don't actually protect the people, but this conversation is about BERMUDA.
I'm sure there are very kind people there. Just like there are very kind people all over the world. Their judicial system just needs work.
I agree. You ARE incredibly stupid.
It's not too late for that ;) but sooner or later every action has a consequence; they WILL GET EXACTLY WHAT THEY DESERVE!!
this judge needs to be locked away he is a criminal himself!!! People let these elected officials get by with anything as if they are above the law
It's not too late for that ;) but sooner or later every action has a consequence; they WILL GET EXACTLY WHAT THEY DESERVE!!
What about those 2 boys whose house they visited after the bar. Shouldn't those boys have made sure that those girls got home safely??
I agree, but a 5 year "protest" by not visiting would be helpful.
Why does the author of this piece refer to the killing as "racial"? Was there courtroom testimony or evidence that suggested it was? If not, it is a highly inflamatory statement.
It would appear that no one cared enough to make certain that this poor girl's attackers were brought to proper justice. I can't begin to imagine how her mother and father must feel. This was an innocent girl who made a terrible decision to ride along with these monsters. This story is troubling and it sickens me to know that the guilty parties have not been made to pay for what they have done, so troubled in fact, that I will never travel to Bermuda again, the same way that I refuse to travel to Aruba and to India. If these countries don't care about what it citizens do to foreign travelers, then we absolutely should not be traveling to these places. I care about what happened to Becky, even if this poor excuse for a country does not!!!
Bermuda will only begin to take action when people stop visiting their island. I don't understand why people still want to visit a place where this goes on. It's not until it hits close to home that they will truly understand. Shame on you Bermuda!!!
YOU'RE OFFENDED!!! Imagine how Rebecca's mother, father, family, and friends feel!!! Bermuda was indeed a very dangerous island for Rebecca and it still is as long as her attackers walk free.
I think that judge should have been very carefully looked at and investigated. Why would that judge allow this person to simply walk free when it was proven beyond a doubt that he was one of the last people to see Rebecca alive. I'm stunned at this judge's decision. Is the judge a friend of the family? Was the judge bribed? Something went wrong and that something should have been carefully examined.
Rebecca should NEVER be forgotten!!! There are so many places in the world to visit. Bermuda should be boycotted!!! Bermuda should pay the Middleton's the full amount of restitution for the loss of their daughter. The amount they ultimately paid out to the Middleton's was a joke. This country is laughable!!! Never would I step foot on that island again!!!
I went to Bermuda more than15 times for vacation prior the horrific barbarian murder of Rebecca Middleton. I have not been to that filthy island since. In my opinion Bermuda is one of the world centers for depravity, sexual deviation and misogyny.
I was planning a trip to Bermuda with my entire family ... and I too ran across the Rebecca Middleton story and promptly made other plans and avoid these southern destinations where rape and misogyny are the norm. All Bermudians who did nothing about this gross miscarriage of justice are guilty of complicity. The judge should have been held accountable. His is now in hiding and can't be reached.
DO NOT GO TO BERMUDA. All Bermudians who did nothing about this Barbaric, savage murder are guilty of complicity. The demented and incompetent judge should be held accountable.
Let's not get bogged down is details. The crime was committed in Bermuda and the Bermudian "justice" system handled the case ... which was a disgrace to the civilized world.
Very well said. Rape and Disrespect for female tourists is part of the culture in Bermuda.
The Bermuda justice system is the biggest collection of incompetent clowns in the civilized world. They dress up in robes and wigs and prance around pretending to be judges.
DO NOT GO TO BERMUDA - there no real justice system....you are on your own.
Becky was a good small town girl. She was not aware of the dangers. She had no idea she would be savagely tortured, raped, sodomized, have her throat cut, be stabbed to death and her naked body would be left in the middle of the road. Bermuda is a festering hole in the ocean and the government and justice system is incomprehensibly incompetent and they don't even have the common decency to be ashamed.
All Bermudians that did not do something about this outrageous miscarriage of justice are guilty of complicity. The smug, arrogant and grossly incompetent imbeciles in the justice system should have to answer for this. I myself have been to Bermuda more than 15 times prior to the barbaric murder by slobbering hyenas and I will never set foot on the island again. However I am sure there are plenty of oblivious and socially irresponsible people who will go and could not care less. I am not one of them. I want someone to pay for this crime.
Not silly at all I wouldn't visit a place knowing that if some act of violence against me or one of my friends would go unpunished by the government. We have been warned and the dirty secrets of crime against women. Beckys friend made it home safely n Becky was abducted by a pack of savage dogs.
Does it matter what or who they were the crime was over kill n brutal in nature. The ignorance is real.
They can't heal until they get justice I know I couldnt move on easily said but hard to do.
Ignorance to blame all but the Bermuda police government citizens for not asking for better policing and those savage animals
i don't care if this is a year later but, i sincerely hope you die a violent death for being such a useless sack of shit of a person.
If i was the father i would have killed them both. Sometimes u have to take justice in your own hands. Rest up becca
You Lie-ana are a HEARTLESS bot! This post is NOT about OTHER VIOLENT deaths go back & read it but I don't give a rat's ass 'cos I'm out of "F''s so my wish is that YOU get violently raped then tortured to death then when you die maybe just then you will FEEL THE PAIN. So I'm praying 'cos Karma = King. The INSENSITIVE uncaring bot = you so allow us to take out your batteries! What a DOPE to even write that garbage stick it where the sun doesn't shine! I don't appreciate your RUDENESS, arrogance & the suggestion that this brutal crime that co$t one teen her life go to Sudan & get bent bitch!
It does not matter if he was Jamaican or not he was in Bermuda when he killed her raped her stabbed her sodimized her etc. What difference does that make where he was from it matters where he was when he done it and that was Bermuda. And Bermudas police and judge failed her . They made a deal with the devil just to hurry this along and hope people would soon forget . Well that didn't work. What in the world is wrong with this picture ? Same thing with Natalee holloway. All they wanted to do was shut her mother up it was bad for business .
I feel nothing but anger towards the Arubian Authorities and deep sadness for the Middleton family. Rest in peace Becky. I will be praying justice.
Indy Sandhar
I will never, ever visit Bermuda for this reason alone.
Me too and I will pass this story on to anyone!!!!.
I will never visit Bermuda! never!
but still .. i will never go to Bermuda! those murderer are out there and the whole system is sick!
I have a question; if I were to begin a petition on this case, how many of you would sign/share it? I'm just curious how many people would get behind it to bring justice to Becky. Perhaps with enough signatures it can be sent to the Bermuda government as well as the UK...it's time this got reassesed.
I would sign any potitions
One moment she is loving life having a great birthday in Bermuda and they next she has two men raping her at the same time and choping her up. Think of her pain and horror that she went through then killed and dumped like a bin bag now tell me when you continue to let them go free you thinking about what did. Any one with a heart feels that pain and especially the family and friends , they lost there rights but the family lost theres to when the police maid so many mistakes . But dont blame the family for what the police done. They cant get back what they lost only there human rights to see justice done .im sorry to be graffic of what happened but there not making choices really knowing what went on because it take a sicko to do what they did and it takes a sicko to refuse a family that has seen the horrific thing imaginable .
Rebecca Middleton rest in peace. You are an angel and will protect others.
I am totally disgusted by the miscarriage of justice in this case.
if you are planning a trip somewhere then it is surely clear that you do not want to go to an island where murderers and criminals go free . the chance of being attacked increases because the criminals are acquitted because of a lack of judicial systems. even I who have no training in the policeforce understand the importance of securing evidence, and how one should handle a murder scene . Sure, evil things happens in all parts of the world , but their justice system works after all and makes people have a chance for restoration.
Its not the islanders or the islands fault, its the murderers and the islands legal justice system that sets them free. Therefore Im never setting my foot on that island.
1 guy testified vs other...Case done...courts realized they were duped...Becky's mom did not want her to go to Bermuda...Did not approve of the friend families life style...
I was once told by my father that it is better keep my mouth shut and be thought a fool, then to open it and prove it. If you have no idea of what you are talking about, one should not make any comments. There are some facts that have been left out. The police rushed to prosecute, but that was at the insistence of the Canadian government to bring someone to justice. The police themselves wanted to wait, but the prosecutor was getting a lot of heat from the representatives of the Canadian government. In retrospect that was a mistake, but if everyone had let things take their natural course then there would have been a proper prosecution and there would have been convictions. Instead as always politics gets involved and screws up everything. Secondly, when the DNA results came back they did not find Justis Smith's DNA anywhere on or near Rebecca Middleton. That is why they had to let him go as there was no direct evidence to connect him to the rape and murder. Secondly, almost everyone connected with or who had anything to do with this case was not Bermudian. The rapist and murderer was from Jamaica. The prosecutor was from Barbados, The judge, the police commissioner and the lead investigators were all from the UK. On another note, yes the US punish their criminals, but how many people are in US prisons who did not commit the offence for which they are in prison. As Sir William Blackstone stated "It is better that 10 guilty man go free than for 1 innocent man be sent to prison. Apparently, the US does not subscribe to this principle.
nice lie clown.
This was a RASCIST attack..lets have no doubts about it...If white guys did this to a black kid?? Also the whole law system there should be indited and sacked for their huge obvious COVER UP...This poor child was TORTURED AND I cant even say it...This was EVIL beyond HELL These guys WILL be going there..Justice will only be served THERE..
I will NEVER EVER GO NEAR THAT EVIL ISLAND>>>IT HAS A RASCIST ELEMENT THAT MAKES THE MAFIA LOOK LIKE TOY TOWN>..IAM GOING TO PUBLISH THIS STORY IN OUR HOLIDAY SPECIAL>
I watched a documentry tonight about Rebecca being so brutily raped and murdered. It was horrific and them sumbags got free all because the burmanda system failed. I cried. What that poor girl must have went through is so sad. I myself was attacked and nearly raped and murdered. I fought for an hour to stay alive and even pnsi in NI were i live did nothing. But i lived. Poor rebbeca didnt get the chance to live. She died a terrible death. Its upset me. I hope them scumbags rot in hell. And my heart goes out to her parents. Im so sorry for your loss. I will say a prayer for rebecca everynight. My thoughts and prayers i send to her family for thier sad loss. This has left a sad inpact on me. Such a beautiful young girl . RIP rebecca. X
I watched a documentry tonight about Rebecca being so brutily raped and murdered. It was horrific and them sumbags got free all because the burmanda system failed. I cried. What that poor girl must have went through is so sad. I myself was attacked and nearly raped and murdered. I fought for an hour to stay alive and even pnsi in NI were i live did nothing. But i lived. Poor rebbeca didnt get the chance to live. She died a terrible death. Its upset me. I hope them scumbags rot in hell. And my heart goes out to her parents. Im so sorry for your loss. I will say a prayer for rebecca everynight. My thoughts and prayers i send to her family for thier sad loss. This has left a sad inpact on me. Such a beautiful young girl . RIP rebecca. X
I watches that too and it makes me sick to the stomach that people can talk about underage drinking on here, like she deserved it and it's an alien concept! I know my friends and I all drank underage, does that mean we deserved to get attacked?
Also you say you'd have your phone ready......... Only rich people had mobiles when this happened, you were lucky to have a pager ffs!
The only people that are guilty are the EVIL bastards that did this horrendous crime and the farce of a judicial system that cocked it up and now it looks like poor Becky's family will never get justice!
RIP Becky and I believe in Karma, she is a bitch and she will be coming for you sick rapist, mudering bastards!
I agree with everything you say UK girl
I am planning a trip with my husband and WAS considering Bermuda but have reconsidered after reading BECKY'S story. My heart goes out to the family, First for having to go through the brutal death of their daughter and then being re-victimized by a country and its judicial system for so many years who did nothing to get a conviction or give restitution to the family. I say tourists should boycott Bermuda until this case is reopened and dealt with correctly. Yes every country has crime, but one expects and should receive assistance from the police, judicial system, and local government when any crime is committed, instead of having to deal with what amounts to be a bunch of bumbling idiots. This was a circus act from the beginning. Also, when those in charge of running the country and judicial system do absolutely nothing to properly investigate and convict the criminals then they are just as guilty as those who perpetrated the crime. SHAME. I don't blame the people of Bermuda but pressure must be placed on the government to reopen this case and the only way to do so is to hit them in the pocket book. Words just fall on deaf ears. Bermudians should also put pressure on their own government to act responsibly. If this happens to foreigners what happens to the Bermudian people? Doesn't everyone have the right to be safe and have their rights protected? I have also read that these murderers are free to travel to the USA, Canada, GB and anywhere else in the world. I as a Canadian do not welcome them here and the Canadian government should ban these sadistic SOB's from ever entering Canada, so I say SHAME on any country who would allow them entry. These two individuals should be on a black list and never be allowed to leave their country. They lost their rights when they took the life of an innocent, beautiful girl. Bermuda may be taking the "out of sight, out of mind" approach, however a crime this heinous will never be forgotten. JUSTICE DELAYED IS JUSTICE DENIED. Do the right thing - Reopen the case!
I am SO sorry this happened to you! I urge all people who have been assaulted in Bermuda to press charges and band together. You will always be heard in numbers and that pressure might just change things. I for one will NEVER be going to Bermuda and will boycott any travel there until these people are held accountable for their crimes, which includes the disgusting joke of a police department.
Please note that the Bermuda police Service did their job, they investigated and apprehended the two men within a couple of weeks. The prosecution are the ones that screwed up.
As a retired Florida Deputy Sheriff and State cop I am appalled at the corruption and incompetence of the Bermuda Criminal Justice system. I watched a repeat of a popular crime show featuring this case. There is no way I can call the person who ruled that there was not enough evidence in this case a Judge. If this case had been tried by an illiterate homeless man here in Florida both of these two animals would have gotten lethal injection. We don't mess around here with rape and torture murders of little girls. There is NO WAY that anyone can convince me that this so called "judge" wasn't paid off [ what we call payola here]. This man should be disbarred for incompetence and if after a proper investigation probable cause [payola] is determined, jailed.
To call the Bermuda Police of that era Police Officers is a total insult to my proud profession.Ditto for the so called prosecutor who made that idiotic deal with one of the scum. Must have an IQ of 5.
England should be ashamed to admit that this place is an actual colony and must be embarrassed that they didn't step in to put a halt to the obvious corruption displayed so prominently in this case. I feel so bad for the people of Bermuda whom I know to be good and hospitable folks. YOU DESERVE BETTER.
I've been a decorated cop for a very long time but never have I seen such horrible in your face corruption and incompetence EVER before. I hope that today those idiots are no longer carrying badges or wear a stained judicial robe. DISGUSTING!!! Bermuda please get rid of your trash!!!!
Unfortunately for the good people of Bermuda I have to conclude that ANYONE who vacations in Bermuda should have their head examined!!!
I think what they are trying to say is the way the police handled it does not provide a safe environment. Their lack of care about this beautiful woman makes me sick and outraged and enough to keep me away. I wouldnt give them a dollar.
Does not matter, it is how Bermuda handled or lack of handling the punishment of the monsters.
DO NOT VISIT BERMUDA !!! NEVER PEOPLE !!!!
Still as an American, and at your own words, I'll go somewhere else, where the police are not "eff'd" up, take my American dollars somewhere else thank you very much
Keep protecting the vicious evil men that did this. At least where I live and visit the police actually do something about it. I'll never go to Bermuda that place is the boughs of hell
Who cares!! It was in Bermuda!! He is evil no matter what.just like hell, Bermuda is full from all walks of evil
Yeah, at least when they're caught they go to prison or are executed Americans go other more beautiful places, we'll keep our money for countries that are much better instead of hell aka Bermuda
Don't spend your hard earned money in Bermuda go to better places leave Bermuda in hell where they belong
I'm so sorry for your grief and hell Bermuda is truly a place for satan
Must be so wonderful to be so perfect in your life, hope you're children or if, God should allow you to have children that they are as perfect as you and that when they make a common choice and it happens to be deadly that you agree blamed by some moron,and you cry in your grief that you ate the perfect born human and your child was perfect, let that be your curse
Your a complete idiot and let's hope the world does not see or deal with your stupid children
Keep your hard earned money for better more beautiful places, with beautiful people, Bermuda erupted from the boughs of hell
I'm thinking no one cares you're offended, so...be offended Bermuda erupted from the boughs of hell. BOOM
What I am wondering is why Jasmine's father would allow 2 underage girls to go to a bar with no adult supervision in a foreign land. He was responsible for the girls going out alone and indirectly, for the consequences.What did they do after they left the bar? They went home with 2 young men and drank and "made out" with them until the men fell asleep. Then they were left without a ride! Why not call the father to pick them up!? I think the father has blood on his hands for letting the girls go out unsupervised.
I totally agree with the posting, "why were underage girls allowed to go out alone? What parent in his right mind would let his daughter and friend stay out past midnight in a foreign country? Unsupervised and without a ride home? He set the events in motion, however, unwittingly, by his lack of parenting.
I am a female, born and raised in Bermuda, and I am ASHAMED TO BE CALLED BERMUDIAN. What happened to Rebecca was vile; the handling of the case was vile; those two monstrous, murderous, cowards are vile; the ONLY thing not vile was the precious, innocent life of Rebecca. It is now 20 years later since those animals committed such a vile act, and it hits me now more than ever because 20 years later I am the mother of a beautiful teenage daughter, and the thought of what Rebecca went through and what her parents have had to go through pains me so deeply to the point of tears. All I can say is I believe that Rebecca's beautiful spirit is at peace and in the light. I also believe in karma, so whether in this life or the next, everything will come full circle. It has to - it's the law of nature - you get back what you put out. I wish peace for Rebecca's parents and loved ones. I hope for a better justice system with officials and laws that are better equipped to properly handle cases of any nature, but especially cases that are so violent.
Yes, let's blame the rape victim who was murdered. You're an idiot.
How can you say it was the poor little girls fault she was raped, tortured and murdered!
That is truly an insensitive and ignorant statement. Shame on you!
Its proven there is no justice there , so why risk going. ok there is crime everywhere , but be warned about this place, please keep away.Even if he was Jamacian he still he still in bermuda.You have been warned.
I have been revisting this horrifying event and reading up on it after all these years - I have always wanted to holiday in Bermuda but after reading about this crime again and how it was handled by authorities - I definitely will never go to Bermuda - I stand with Becky Middleton - Bermuda should be boycotted forever especially after hearing your story as well
the points you make are sadly true - these girls were in a strange place and only 17 years old - the parents of the visiting teens should never have allowed them to be out roaming on their own - indeed why were they not ferried by the parents - also, would the girls take rides from stangers back home - I am sure they were schooled on this subject - but as you say - alcohol could have been involved and they let down their guard - the real blame goes to the father on the island to whom they were visiting
no it is not blame - but parents have more wisdom than the children - the parents should have protected them - that is all - this thought does not excuse the perpetrators or the island authorities - the perpetrators are sick horrible things and the authorities are shameful and with no conscience to carry out justice
AMEN
he is behind bars because of an unrelated charge- lets not try to twist it. Bermuda officials turn a blind eye. The prejudice against non Bermudians and especially white non Bermudians is real. Had this girl been a black Bermudian the ending would have been different. Bermuda had its reputation to protect at the risk of letting murderers and rapists off the hook to repeat their crimes. Which they did! Justis was arrested in 2002 for stabbing a woman- keep your head in the sand if you like, offer your pleasant little condolences but don't get offended when other people get outraged by the lack of protection Bermuda offers its tourists by not taking these attacks to the furthest extent of the law- by doing that- Yes it makes Bermuda a dangerous place. BTW, who the hell cares about you being offended anyway?
Ok, Dont visit a place that does not bring their residents to trial for murdering and raping the tourists that visit..also known as Bermuda.
The man that raped her was Jamaican the man who stabbed and raped her was Bermudian. And he went on to stab another women in 2002 but she was a Black Bermudian so he went to jail for it. #Bermudiansareeffedup
Its the fact that justice was not served and the man went on to commit more crimes- if Bermuda does nothing to protect the people that visit there why should people continue to visit? If it happened in Florida and they had the rapist and murderer in custody they would have been thrown in jail and then dealt with once inside for attacking a minor- justice served! You have completely missed the point of everyones outrage.
It is the fact that Bermuda did nothing to bring to justice her attackers- you all cant be this dense. Why would people spend their money vacationing in a place that does not value their safety let alone their lives? Yea, it happens everywhere but how it is handled is the problem with Bermuda.
you have missed the point - Bermuda is at fault for not bringing to trial and convicting the two attackers that confessed to the crime. No one is saying it doesnt happen everywhere, the outrage comes from an island that turns a blind eye to justice in order to preserve its persona.
But in America we punish our rapists and we execute our killers. Wow the vast amount of stories of injustice in America and you have the nerve to say that. It's so true you Americans are insanely self righteously hypocritical
Don't go Bermuda many killers walking free , police protect criminals !!
Bermuda, pop 60,000 is like an annexe of Maidstone, Kent where I live - we have 2 senior Conservative Politicians in Maidstone who lived and worked in Bermuda. Many Bermuda Police are British who came to Maidstone for their training at Kent Police HQ. I was set up by someone working for a Maidstone private medical business, BMI Healthcare, to visit Bermuda for my health. I am still alive, but the intention was to rape and murder me in Bermuda aided by my hotel, Sonesta Beach Hotel and Carlton Adams of the Bermuda Police. The Sonesta Beach Hotel arranged for a taxi on 10.3.2001 to take me to the airport for the flight home. Vernon Harrison was the taxi driver, he abducted me and took me to John Smith's Beach. I am grateful that I lived to tell the tale. There is an overt US paedophile tourist trade in Bermuda - children are raped and murdered. There needs to be an investigation centred on the sand dunes at John Smith's Beach. I have videos on youtube. On 6.4.2001 the Daily Mail published about me and Bermuda, what they published was sub judice to protect my black sexual assaulter taxi driver in Bermuda. The Daily Mail is read in Bermuda, some decent women arranged a peaceful march with the police. A trial was arranged after Bermuda & Maidstone Police had visited my home. I then met Phillip Swift an ex-Bermuda cop via his anti-Bermuda Police website. The trial in Bermuda was a set up, I did not go. Bermuda looks beautiful but there is pure evil lurking linked to very rich people/businesses - there are strong freemason lodges in Bermuda. Bermuda is safe as long as someone does not want a favour committed there ie rape and murder. I had a £5 million compensation claim pending against BMI Healthcare when my doctor recommended a holiday in Bermuda to overcome a PTSD breakdown after flashbacks on 14.2.2001 on the 1st anniversary of my near-death experience in the BMI Somerfield Hospital, Maidstone. There are some thoroughly decent people living in Bermuda, but my advice would be not to go there
Bermuda, pop 60,000 is like an annexe of Maidstone, Kent where I live - we have 2 senior Conservative Politicians in Maidstone who lived and worked in Bermuda. Many Bermuda Police are British who came to Maidstone for their training at Kent Police HQ. I was set up by someone working for a Maidstone private medical business, BMI Healthcare, to visit Bermuda for my health. I am still alive, but the intention was to rape and murder me in Bermuda aided by my hotel, Sonesta Beach Hotel and Carlton Adams of the Bermuda Police. The Sonesta Beach Hotel arranged for a taxi on 10.3.2001 to take me to the airport for the flight home. Vernon Harrison was the taxi driver, he abducted me and took me to John Smith's Beach. I am grateful that I lived to tell the tale. There is an overt US paedophile tourist trade in Bermuda - children are raped and murdered. There needs to be an investigation centred on the sand dunes at John Smith's Beach. I have videos on youtube. On 6.4.2001 the Daily Mail published about me and Bermuda, what they published was sub judice to protect my black sexual assaulter taxi driver in Bermuda. The Daily Mail is read in Bermuda, some decent women arranged a peaceful march with the police. A trial was arranged after Bermuda & Maidstone Police had visited my home. I then met Phillip Swift an ex-Bermuda cop via his anti-Bermuda Police website. The trial in Bermuda was a set up, I did not go. Bermuda looks beautiful but there is pure evil lurking linked to very rich people/businesses - there are strong freemason lodges in Bermuda. Bermuda is safe as long as someone does not want a favour committed there ie rape and murder. I had a £5 million compensation claim pending against BMI Healthcare when my doctor recommended a holiday in Bermuda to overcome a PTSD breakdown after flashbacks on 14.2.2001 on the 1st anniversary of my near-death experience in the BMI Somerfield Hospital, Maidstone. There are some thoroughly decent people living in Bermuda, but my advice would be not to go there
It would be a good thing if you read ALL OF THE FACTS of the case. Had the Canadian government not gotten involved and allowed the DNA evidence to be tested and analyzed, then perhaps justice would have prevailed. So do not comment topics which you have NO DIRECT and reliable information.
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