Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A HIGH Court Judge yesterday granted an order for two prominent Negril residents, who have been in custody since June 5 without being charged, to be taken to the Supreme Court at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
The men are Michael Grandison, a 42-year-old hotelier, and Peter Bandoo, a 40-year-old security manager. They are to be taken to court so that enquiries can be made to ascertain if their detention is lawful.
Grandison and Bandoo were taken into custody after hotelier Sandra McLeod was found strangled on June 5 at a hotel in Negril.
The two men have not been taken before the court since they have been detained; neither have they been charged with any offence.
Grandison is the owner of Merril One and Merril Two hotels in Negril, Westmoreland, and he and McLeod are part owners of Merril Three hotel in Negril. Bandoo is the security manager for the hotels.
FOUND DEAD IN THE TRAINING ROOM
It is being alleged that Bandoo found McLeod dead in the training room at one of the hotels on June 5. McLeod had gone to the hotel to attend a meeting there.
The men filed a writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court seeking their release from custody. Grandison is being held at the Savanna-la-Mar Police Station lock-up while Bandoo is at the Negril Police Station lock-up.
Justice Wesley James, after hearing submissions from attorney-at-law Ravil Golding who was instructed by attorney-at-law Courtney Kazemba, granted the order.
