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IT’S ‘LIKE WATCHING HIM DIE AGAIN’ Mom learns of acquittal on social media after being told son’s murder trial set for 2026 By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net A GRIEVING mother says she was blindsided by the collapse of her eight-year-old son’s murder trial, describing the shock of learning through social media that the accused had been acquitted as a blow so painful it “feel like the day I watched my child bleed out.” Kendera Woodside, who says her life fell apart after her son Eugene Woodside Jr’s death, said no one in authority bothered to contact her
to say the trial had begun – or that it had dramatically collapsed after prosecutors gave no opening statement and called no witnesses.She received no phone call, no notice... not even a rumour that the trial had begun having been told for years that it would not happen before 2026. Instead, the trial unfolded and concluded this week without her knowledge, reigniting trauma that never abated. Her son was doing homework in their small wooden Chippingham home in 2017 when
Kendra Woodside mother of eight-year-old boy shot by stray bullet while doing homework at home.
BLINDSIDED - SEE PAGE THREE
‘WHY DID HE DO THIS?’ - FAMILY SHOCK AFTER MAN FOUND DEAD
Officer testifies dad failed to restrain son in fatal incident
By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net
By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
RELATIVES have spoken of their shock after finding a 61-year-old man dead with a cord around his neck in what police believe is a suicide. An emotional scene unfolded at the man’s home on T Rose Circle
in Westridge yesterday evening. Relatives identified the victim as Arnoldi Simms. They gathered outside the house consoling each other, with some appearing stunned by the news. One woman said to be the victim’s sister was heard crying out: “Why did he do SUICIDE - SEE PAGE FIVE
THE BODY of a man is taken from the scene of an apparent suicide in Westridge yesterday. Photo: Nikia Charlton
THE prosecution yesterday closed its case in the manslaughter by negligence trial of Denargio Thurston, who is accused of causing the death of his two-yearold son after the child became trapped in his car’s power window while being
driven along Old Trail Road in August 2023. Thurston watched from the dock as the Crown called its final witness, Sergeant Deangela Johnson, before Justice Neil Braithwaite. Prosecutors allege that young Jeremiah Thurston died after his neck was NEGLECT - SEE PAGE THREE
Pinder: Smuggling Bill does not give migrants new rights By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder yesterday defended the Smuggling of Migrants Bill 2025 as a measure designed to target criminal networks, rejecting claims that the Bill grants migrants new rights to remain or receive legal status in The Bahamas.
Mr Pinder said the legislation’s purpose is to tighten penalties, expand enforcement against human smuggling, and reduce the number of migrants entering the country illegally. He said it does not alter the state’s authority to arrest, detain, charge or deport migrants under the Immigration Act. BILL - SEE PAGE FOUR
ATTORNEY GENERAL Ryan Pinder speaks during a press conference at the OPM. Photo: Nikia Charlton
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