GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, CMC – The choose presiding over the case in opposition to former Premier William McKeeva Bush on Thursday stayed the proceedings resulting from a profitable utility by the protection, accusing the crown of an abuse of course of.
Based mostly on this, Justice Stanley John discharged the jury, launched Bush from his bail circumstances, and stopped the trial.
The crown famous that Bush was not discharged because of the proof however due to the method and that it was open to the prosecution to attraction the choose’s ruling, and if profitable, Bush might take the stand as soon as once more.
Bush was charged final yr within the wake of allegations that he indecently assaulted two civil servants at a cocktail social gathering on the Ritz lodge in September 2022 throughout a Caribbean Tourism Organisation convention hosted by the tourism ministry.
Bush was accused of kissing one girl on the shoulder twice and biting and sucking one other girl’s hand whereas attending the occasion. He denied the allegations.
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