CURRUPTION RULES?

HAMILTON, Bermuda (Reuters) -
Bermuda authorities have rejected a call to
reopen the case of a Canadian teen murdered
a decade ago.
Bermuda's director of public prosecutions,
Vinette Graham-Allen, who conducted a review of the case,
said on Friday the authorities would not bring new
charges of sexual assault against two men previously
acquitted of murdering Rebecca Middleton in 1996, when
she was 17.
Graham-Allen ruled the suspects should not be retried on
sexual assault charges as no one should be twice punished
for an offense.
Middleton, from Ontario, died after being raped, tortured
and stabbed on a beach in the British mid-Atlantic territory.
A suspect, Kirk Orlando Mundy, was allowed to strike a plea
bargain deal with police in which he admitted to being an
accessory after the fact and was sentenced to five years.
The case against the other suspect, Justis Raham Smith,
collapsed after a judge in Bermuda said there was insufficient
evidence.
The failure to satisfactorily resolve the case led Canadian
tourists to boycott the island of 62,000 people, 560 miles
(900 km) east of North Carolina.
Middleton's father Dave Middleton said he was disappointed.
He told Reuters he was considering hiring lawyer
Cherie Booth, the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
to run a private prosecution.

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