For Detective Inspector Jason Smith, it was the first time he had investigated a murder where there was no body; indeed, the trial was a first for the island.
A fully staffed counselling service is set to address a wider scope of bereavement and grief from its headquarters in Smith’s after bringing help to more than 100 people in need last year.
Bermuda’s gang dynamics and youth violence are to be researched in depth by a student criminologist “eager” to return to the island as an agent of positive change.