Bail extended for policemen accused of soliciting bribe

Bail was today further extended for three St Catherine-based policemen who are accused of corruption.

Corporal Stephen Peart and constables Morris Foster and Lariston Bogle are charged with solicitation of a bribe.

Senior parish court judge Yvette Wentworth-Miller said the matter should go to trial, but defence lawyers Everton Dewar and John Jacobs informed that the Crown is yet to make disclosure.

The matter will again be mentioned in the St Catherine Parish Court on May 29.

The accused are each out on $700,000 bail with surety.

It is alleged that on February 6, 2021, the policemen were on duty when they stopped a car for reported breaches of the Larceny Act. 

The vehicle was taken to the Central Village Police Station in St Catherine where the complainant was reportedly told to 'do supn'.

The man reportedly gave the policemen $50,000.

A subsequent report was made to the police, which resulted in an investigation and a ruling from the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in February this year that the cops should be charged.

- Rasbert Turner

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