Created: November 2, 2024 08:00

Keith Gordon (file photo)

A man yesterday admitted causing the death of a national hero’s son.

Clinton Smith, 48, pleaded guilty to causing the death of Keith Gordon, 70, when he appeared at the Supreme Court yesterday.

However, Smith, of no known address, denied the murder of Mr Gordon, whose lifeless body was found in a house on Victoria Street on June 11, 2022.

Police launched a murder investigation upon his death two weeks later.

Mr Gordon was the son of the late labor and civil rights leader EF Gordon, a national hero, and the brother of former Prime Minister Dame Pamela Gordon and former Opposition Leader Patricia Gordon-Pamplin.

Puisne Judge Juan Wolffe adjourned the case until November 12 and remanded Smith in custody until that date.

Also present at yesterday’s monthly arraignments was former Progressive Labor Party senator Curtis Richardson, 49, who denied causing the death of award-winning footballer Marco Warren by driving without due care and attention.

The late footballer Marco Warren was found unconscious in Hamilton Parish last year (File photo by Blaire Simmons)

Mr Warren, 29, a three-time recipient of the Bermuda Football Association’s most valuable player award, was found unconscious at the junction of North Shore and Trinity Church roads in Hamilton Parish on May 14, 2023 and was declared dead at the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

Judge Wolffe adjourned the case until December 27, when a trial date could be set, and extended Mr Richardson’s bail until that date.

Bean Kentaro, 19 years old, pleaded not guilty to shoot a bullet, to shoot someone with a firearm and to possess the weapon and ammunition without a license.

He allegedly committed the acts on May 2.

Judge Wolffe adjourned the case until January 2 and extended Mr Bean’s bail until that date.

Melina Abanto Saldivar, 44, remained silent yesterday when accused ofcausing serious bodily harm to Carolina Orellana-Henriquez by driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs, injuring the same woman while driving while intoxicated, failing to stop after the incident and a driver’s license offense, all of which allegedly occurred on October 24, 2023.