Legal Aid

A DEFENCE ATTORNEY yesterday withdrew from representing a client so he could stand bail for her in the widely publicized case of the desperate mother who illegally occupied a vacant Government house last month.
Keisha Alicia Brathwaite, 21, of 86 Midway Lane, Pinelands, St Michael, was charged yesterday in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court with unlawfully entering and trespassing the premises of the National Housing Corporation (NHC) at Barbarees Gardens Phase 2, Barbarees Hill, St Michael, on November 24.
She pleaded guilty and was granted $5 000 bail while her sentence was suspended pending consultation with the Probation Department.
But, in an unusual twist, attorney Andrew Pilgrim, upon realizing that no one was present to support the first-time offender, almost immediately left the Bar table, walked into the dock, took an oath and disclosed some of his assets, which would be used as a form of surety if Brathwaite does not return to court on January 31 at 9 a.m.
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