BARBADOS’ COURTS should stop granting bail to accused killers.
That demand came from Carlisle Greaves, a former senior magistrate in Bridgetown who retired last month as a top judge in Bermuda’s Supreme Court where he had served for almost 20 years.
He told the WEEKEND NATION in New York that Barbados’ courts should end the current policy of granting bail to people accused of committing heinous crimes, murder included, because far too many of them were using their freedom to commit other offences.
“In principle and for any case for that matter we ought not to be finding ourselves in a situation where people who are accused of serious offences before the court are able to be roaming the society free enough pending trial that they could then commit further offences, in particular offences such as murder,” was the way he put it. (TB)
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