NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander is reiterating a name for an modification to the bail laws because the nation grapples with an uptick in murders because the begin of the brand new 12 months.
“We proceed to say, and the regulation says inside two to a few years if the matter doesn’t come up in per week inside that interval, then they need to be entitled to be reviewed for bail, however two to a few months? Now we have to take a look at that,” Fernander advised a information convention, noting that some individuals charged with critical crimes final 12 months had been launched on bail “inside two or three months.
“One thing is unsuitable with that,” the highest cop advised reporters, noting that the mom of 16-year-old Davinique Grey, who was murdered in her Nassau Village house final Saturday, was “harboring” a fugitive who was the meant goal of the murderers.
The authorities stated that the fugitive, Gamaliel Grey, was a suspect needed in reference to the loss of life of Gerrad Coakley, who was shot and killed at his residence on January 2.
Fernander stated Grey was on the residence on the time of the incident and that the capturing might have been as a gang retaliation.
“Officers needed to chase him possibly a day or so as a result of we have been searching for him. He was working from the police. It seems as if she was harboring him. He was there when people shot up the home, and it was so unhappy that the younger 16-year-old was shot. She was conscious that we have been searching for this particular person, and he was hiding out.
“The criminals did their homework. Somebody might have communicated with or seen him in Nassau Village at that residence. She put your entire household in danger, and it’s so unhappy that it ended up that the daughter was shot and killed,” Fernander advised reporters.
The eleventh grader at RM Bailey Excessive Faculty died immediately after the gunmen fired a number of pictures at a residence on Saturday night time. One relative stated {that a} voice recording circulating on social media claims that the schoolgirl was killed as a result of she witnessed a homicide and talked about it on social media.
However the relative denied the allegation, urging the general public to “cease making up false narratives.”
The police stated Grey surrendered to police on Monday, accompanied by his lawyer, and Fernander couldn’t say whether or not the mom of the useless 16-year-old can be charged for harboring a prison.
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