Bridgetown.
Three weeks after High Court Judge Margaret Reifer ruled that the detention of Raul Garcia by the Immigration Department was unlawful, the former drug convict is not a free man.
On February 16, Justice Reifer ruled that the Cuban three year detention by Immigration Officials was unlawful and he would be released once she was satisfied with proposals for is alternative accomodation.
At that time Justice Margaret Reifer order that Garica's lawyer David Comissiong prepare the proposals discuss them with the Chief Immigration Officer and the Solictor General before they were submitted for her determination.
Yesterday when Comissiong and the rest of Garica's legal team arrived at the Number Six Supreme Court they were informed by the clerk that the Judge was ill and the matter was adjourned sine die.
"It is very a disappointing turn of events but we understand", Comissiong told the press.
He was expecting Justice Reifer to endorse a living arrangement plan that would released Garica into the custody of an elderly Barbadian couple.
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