Bridgewater images case

Lawyers for the six young men who pleaded guilty to distributing intimate images of underage girls were back in Bridgewater court yesterday asking for a delay in sentencing.

The lawyers said both sides were close to an agreed statement of facts in the case but needed more time.  So the judge delayed sentencing to July 31st.

Gardiner Mines murder case

A 40 year old Cape Breton man has been charged with first degree murder in the death of a woman in Gardiner Mines Tuesday.

33 year old SaraBeth Ann Forbes was a teacher at Tompkins Memorial Elementary School in nearby Reserve Mines.  Grief counsellors have been brought in to help students and staff there.

Richard Wayne McNeil of Gardiner Mines was in court yesterday and remanded in custody until next Wednesday.  He and Forbes were common-law partners with a son.