NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – A authorities legislator has been launched on US$9,000 bail and can return to court docket on November 16 after he pleaded not responsible to prices of rape, assault and threatening to kill a lady earlier this yr.
When he appeared earlier than Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson, Kirk Cornish, 48, denied the allegations that the prosecution alleges he had dedicated between January 20 and April 4.
He’s accused of raping the 35-year-old lady on two separate events and threatening to kill her on April 4. He’s additionally accused of allegedly assaulting her on January 20 and once more on March 25.
The police had issued a press release in August stating that “preliminary studies point out that round 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 7, 2023, a 35-year-old feminine … reported to police that she was sexually assaulted and threatened by a male recognized to her.”
Cornish had, in an earlier assertion, stated the costs are “based mostly on false allegations.
“I’m assured that the information that emerge in the course of the judicial course of will show my innocence. I look ahead to ending this nightmare. The information will present that this was a breakup manipulated and exploited for political causes – and nothing extra,” he added.
In August, Cornish was pressured to resign as Parliamentary Secretary within the Workplace of the Prime Minister. Prime Minister Phillip Davis stated then that an impartial Director of Public Prosecutions had decided enough proof to deliver prices towards the legislator.
“It’s now as much as our judicial system to resolve the result, so I can’t be offering extra remark besides to say that my prayers are prolonged to all struggling due to this matter,” Davis stated.
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