How on earth did driver of speedboat that killed our son get off scot-free?:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=562235&in_page_id=1770

Story from the British newspaper the Daily Mail about the Gallagher trial.

"Three-quarters of the way through a two-week manslaughter trial against the boat's driver James Bain and its owners Clifford Nottage and Evangeless Williamson, Supreme Court Judge Elliot Lockhart abruptly dismissed the case against them.

He ruled there was insufficient evidence of negligence, even though the boat had been unlicensed, had no insurance and Bain had traces of marijuana in his blood – all clear breaches of Bahamian law."

......
"We thought it was an open and shut case. We wanted justice, but also to make the beaches of the Bahamas safer for other holidaymakers.

"Now the judge has given out a firm message – you can break Bahamian law and get away with it."

........
""Since Paul died, new water safety laws have been brought in to make the Bahamas safer. Now we can only pray the new laws are upheld and no family will ever have to suffer the way we have.

"This has cost us everything: our life savings, our business and our peace of mind. But we felt the authorities wanted to sweep Paul's death under the carpet to protect their tourist industry from bad publicity.

"We may not have got justice, but no one can say that we did not try our hardest for little Paul."

you can break Bahamian law and get away with it."

Every Bahamian knows that already ..

On the last day of the prosecution case, on Thursday, defence counsel J. Henry Bostwick QC asked the judge to rule there was "no case to answer", claiming the prosecution had shown no evidence of negligence – and that the safety of people on the beach at a private resort could not in Bahamian law be regarded as the responsibility of the boat's driver.

The judge ruled that Mr Bostwick was correct and that, in effect, the tragedy fell into a legal black hole.

Paul said: "If Bain had been driving a car which had mounted a pavement and hit little Paul, he would have been punished.

"That boat was a powerful machine – 200 horsepower – and Bain had no skipper's licence or insurance and was under the influence of cannabis.

----------------------

in the Bahamas, rarely.