Dear Sir:

I like what you wrote about the Natalee Holloway in Aruba by Dan McGee. I just hope you will give at least equal coverage to happened to 16 year old Canasian tourist, the late Rebecca Middleton in 1996 in Bermuda. She was gang raped repeatedly, tortured, sodomized and murdered in Bermuda, without the guilty ever having paid a judicial price for their crimes.

At least the Dutch authorities have done something with Natalee. In Bermuda, the authorities have treated the matter with callous contempt. Their antics in April 2007 when Cherie Blair was there was just to try - unsuccessfully - to placate the Canadian Press. See under "Rebecca Middleton" in www.bermuda-online.org/legal.htm.

What adds insult to injury is that some of the British Commonwealth's most distinguished judges and magistrates arrive in Bermuda for a conference lasting to August 23, instead of refusing to go there for cause. The regional meeting of the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association (CMJA) is entitled 'Equality and the Courts — Exploring the Commonwealth Experience.' Among the topics to be discussed will be family and gender-based violence, human rights and economic development, and perspectives on equality and the courts. Although the event has traditionally been addressed only to magistrates and judges, the latest conference has been extended to include all lawyers in Bermuda at the instigation of the Regional Vice-President of the CMJA, Puisne Judge Norma Wade-Miller.

Members of the Bermuda Bar Association who attend the conference will be able to meet and network with CMJA members from the UK, Channel Islands, Cayman Islands, the Caribbean and Africa. The event will be hosted by Chief Justice Richard Ground at the Fairmont Southampton resort between August 19 and 23.

Keith A. Forbes