FORMER?Government advisor on poverty, Hamilton Lashley, has commended the defence attorney who stood bail for Keisha Brathwaite, the 21-year-old charged with trespassing on the premises of the National Housing Corporation (NHC) at Barbarees Hill, St Michael, on November 24.
Lashley yesterday lauded Brathwaite’s attorney, Andrew Pilgrim, who is also president of the Bar Association, for taking the rare step of stepping aside from his professional duty to support the unemployed and desperate mother of two who took up residence in the NHC unit after her boyfriend, for whom she’s pregnant, put her out of their home.
“This is one of the kindest and most humane acts I’ve ever witnessed by a lawyer to a person in need.
“Mr Pilgrim should be commended as well as THE NATION newspaper, for highlighting the plight of Keisha, who now happens to be one of my constituents. It was a wonderful act of humanitarianism,” said the Government backbencher and former minister. (RJ)
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