Senior Parish Pass judgement on Sanchia Burrell mentioned she is paying attention to imaginable constitutional breaches being dedicated by way of law enforcement officials, who keep Company Segment citizens in custody for long sessions earlier than striking them earlier than the courts.
“I don’t know if the police are not aware of the constitutional rights being breached or they just don’t care. I urge the private bar to engage the police in that. I see it happen many times here, where men are in custody for over a month before they are brought before the court,” the pass judgement on reasoned.
Her feedback got here then defence recommend Kemoy McEkron cited his contemporary talk over with to the Duhaney Ground Police Station, the place a number of males mentioned they have been being held with out wisdom of a court docket presen.
“I went there to a client and there were many men, one of whom is the accused, Gary Brown, who was in custody for over a week but with no court date. I don’t know if this is a new practice by the police but what they tell me is that they submit the files to the registry at Hunts Bay [Police Station] and they cannot say to the accused when they will be brought to court,” McEkron advised the pass judgement on.
Brown is earlier than the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Courtroom for allegedly acquiring cash by the use of fraudelant pretence. Allegations surrounding that on July 25, Brown knowledgeable the complainant that he was once promoting moveable bathrooms that have been on public sale on the Kingston Wharves. The complainant paid over $170,000 for 28 bathrooms however to presen has neither won the pieces nor had his monies returned.
Prosecutors antagonistic bail because the investigator referred to as Brown a aviation chance. The investigator, who is connected to the Hunts Bay station, was once now not found in court docket.
“He worked last night, Your Honour,” the prosecution liaison officer for the St Andrew South Police Category, through which Hunts Bay falls, advised the pass judgement on.
“That has nothing to do with the accused, and quite frankly, me either. Let’s see if he is a flight risk because I am offering him bail,” the peeved senior pass judgement on mentioned.
Brown was once introduced $250,000 bail with no less than two sureties and a status that he report back to the police thrice weekly. A subpoena was once issued for the investigator, and entire restitution is to be made on the after court docket presen on December 12.
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