The justice system always fails us Bermudians no matter what RACE COLOR or CREED you are!! Snap out of it People as I have seen enough people get of for crimes that are Black and White.

I believe what they were trying to show in the Bermuda Sun article is how someone with a bright future threw it all away for drugs! And just so you know the same has happended in the past with many others. People love to read a story about the rise and fall of people! And if they are famous, wealthy or rich we become more interested in te story. Sick but true!

I agree that we have a problem with consistancy in the court rooms and sometimes it is true of the media as well. But I do not agree that it is so one sided as you might think. I think you might be surprised at what you will find, if you look back at the Royal Gazettes articles.

Fact is there was DNA evidence? The end result was a dead innocent girl, the two involved walked free. At least this guy will get time!

By the way, just curious and Im asking because I honestly don’t know. Are te DPP players white? Police Officers involved white? Judge white? Im guessing based my experiences in Bermudas courts – statistically the answer to most (if not all) of these questions is no. So perhaps you should complain that Bermudas Court systems are not a true reflection of Bermuda Demographics.

As a small business, we can either spend our resources getting 10/20 photos of the same thing or we can get a wider variety of photos [sports/parades etc] and use file photos when able. We go for the variety…

That said, we actually did have a photog there today since we thought he would be sentenced, however DeSilva had his head down. So rather than show the top of his head, we used the ones from last week as they show his actual face…

And by the way the JUDGE not the DPP sentenced the firfighter . . .he was charged with sexual assault!!!! Before you go shooting your mouth off in attempts to be funny or sarcastic remember the golden rule . . .It’s better to be thought a fool then to open your mouth and remove all doubt!”

Read the earlier postings on this case, one comment stated he was prepared to do 30 years according to a close friemd of his, but his mother and lawyer plea bargained . . .guess he’s always been rescued by his mother.

While I am totally disgusted by the DPP’s rush to get a conviction instead of taking their time to apply the correct charges appropriate to the crime, we cannot erase the race factor for the following reasons:
1. Everytime a serious crime occurs, the media spalshes these young balck boys all across the news and the papers (not that I don’t think they should be), but when the tables are turned, there is either no picture (the guy accused of killing his aunt) or there is an old picture like the one displayed here.

2. The Bermuda Sun went into great detail to talk about his accomplishments and what he did and enjoyed . . .I don’t see anyone documneting the life chronicles in any positive manners when its a black male. I don’t give a damn if he was in sports illustrated or operated his daddy’s boat, or how nice he was . . .he is a crackhead like all the rest and a damn murderer.

We get sooooo upset when we hear family and friends talking about how nice a murder victim was while the paper tags them as gang members, or how nice an accused was while the media calls them murderers and here we sit and see this cold blooded murderer painted like he’s a victim of some sort because he chose to start getting high and murder someone’s child, sister and mother. . ..REALLY!!!!!

in fact im pretty sure there’s a huge uproar over the last few years of people who have been convicted nad had less than minimal sentences… adn they were black… but thats irrelevant?