Three weeks after being appointed a magistrate, former prosecutor Oliver Thomas has died.
The 39-year-old died suddenly today, a day after he dealt with a number of matters in the Criminal Court No.1 of the District “A” Magistrates’ Court.
Thomas, who was admitted to the Bar in 2014 and joined the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions a year later, was a Principal State Counsel prior to his swearing in as a magistrate on January 2.
Barbadian Thomas was the grandson of the late Marcus Thomas, the first Police Commissioner of independent St Vincent and the Grenadines, while his father, the late Justice Errol Thomas, served as a High Court judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
Thomas also tutored in the Regional Security Systems Fisheries Prosecution and Interdiction Course and serves as a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Barbados Boxing Association.
Yesterday, among the last set of cases he dealt with were that of Jayden Tyrell Haynes, the accused in the alleged mass shooting in the Hincks Street, The City area on January 3; and that of Dario Demario Ifill of Richard Land, Bush Hall, St Michael, who admitted to having cannabis while appearing in the Supreme Court.
Thomas was married in June last year.
