Police officers granted bail

Police Constable Jonathon Barrow, 32 of Pasture Road, Haggatt, St Michael, and  female Constable Melanie Denny, 25, of Golden Mile St Peter, was granted bail yesterday when they appeared in the District  A Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Barrow was charged of serious indecency of a female Jamaican prisoner, and Denny is accused of aiding and abetting him.

Constable Barrow was not required to plead to committing an act of serious indecency on the 27 year old Jamaican woman ,

between February 27 and 28 this year; while Denny was not required to plead to the charge that she aided and abetted Barrow to commit an act of serious indecency on the Jamaican.

The woman was in the holding cells at Central Police Station, following her arrest for drug possession at the Grantley Adams International Airport when the alleged incident ocurred.

Prosecutor Station Sergeant Irvin Kellman did not object to the two accused being granted bail but asked the court  to confiscate their passport as one of the conditions of their bail.

Chief Magistrate Deborah Holder made the order and released each of the with a surety of $5000.

Denny was respresented Kendrid Sargeant and Lennox Miller and Barrow has retained Andrew Pilgrim and Lesley Cargill.

They will return to the court on September 1.