A man who was last year convicted of child sexual exploitation and sentenced to 35 years in jail, has been released on appeal.
Locksley Cummings had his appeal against conviction heard and allowed on a ground related to a jury irregularity.
That irregularity lead the court to find that the conviction was unsafe. The conviction was quashed, and Cummings is discharged.
TNN has chosen not to rehash the details of the offences out of concern for the wellbeing of the victims involved, so heinous were the offences.
The matter was heard before Puisne Judge Shade Subair Williams. Prior to sentencing the Judge described Cummings’s crimesas being among the worst non-death cases she had ever seen in Bermuda, and that he had put his victims through “a nightmare”.
Addressing Cummings, she said: ”You violated that little girl like only a monster could.
“To think that any person could be so vile and cruel. May you one day step away from your cowardly denial of these heinous crimes and address your demons.
There will be no retrial.