The four policemen implicated in the controversial death of Grants Pen resident, André Thomas, were each granted bail yesterday, when they appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

The four - corporals Noel Bryan, Phillip Dunstan and constables Clayton Fearon and Omar Miller - are scheduled to return to court on November 29.

They were each granted bail in the sum of $200,000 with sureties.

Senior Resident Magistrate Glen Brown offered bail after the Director of Public Prosecutions ruled that the policemen should be charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Thomas was shot by the police on September 28 in Grants Pen, St. Andrew, after he was among a group of men who the police said were acting suspiciously.

The police claim that one of the men pulled a gun and, in their attempt to take evasive action, Thomas was shot.

However, residents of Grants Pen rejected the police's version of the incident and staged a protest in the community.

There were also questions raised about the use of the police service vehicle in which Thomas was transported to the hospital.

The vehicle, which had been taken to a garage, was later removed to the Police Commissioner's Office, then to the Government Forensic Laboratory for forensic tests.