Tall Pines Member of Parliament Leslie Miller yesterday named the man he believes is responsible for the murder of his son.

On the floor of the House of Assembly, Miller said Dion Bowe, a man who he claims left the country for a decade following the brutal killing of Mario Miller, has since resurfaced on New Providence and remains free, calling himself a business consultant.

Mario Miller's mutilated body was found in June, 2002, in bushes near Super Value food store in Winton, just a few minutes drive from his home.

After three trials, no one has been convicted of murdering Mario Miller, who was 28 when he died.

"I realize that a lot of my colleagues in here dislike when I talk about it because they don't feel the pain that I feel," he said.

"They don't feel the hurt that my family is feeling because it hasn't happened to them.

" Miller went on to detail an experience he had with a man less than a week after Mario was killed.

"About four days after Mario was butchered I was going upstairs in the British Colonial hotel," Miller explained.

"A young man stopped me and said to me, "You know? I know who killed your son.' I said, 'Yeah...who?' "He said, 'Some guys out of Jamaica came to The Bahamas on one boat and they went through Great Harbour Cay, and that's how they escaped.'

I said, 'I see.' I said, 'How you know that?.' He said, 'I know them.' I said, 'I see.'

"I found out later through the police...that the same person who approached me telling me who killed Mario, one of his girlfriends had slept with Mario the Friday night before they butchered him that Saturday, and he had told her that he was going to have my son killed. He told her this.

"She never did appear in court for the case. She left the country. I don't know where she is today.

"The gentleman in question, the police questioned him once. He subsequently left the island for 10 years.

"Mr. Speaker, that same person that told me who killed my son, and who I understood from the police and others that he had, in fact, told his girlfriend that he was going to have my son killed is back in town now. [He] calls himself a business consultant.

The gentleman I'm talking about is fellow named Dion Bowe. [I've] seen him around town."

He said 11 years after Mario's death, he and his family still do not have closure, and "justice must prevail". "No one feels our pain, and I don't cry on anyone's shoulder, Mr. Speaker," Miller said.

"When things get tough and the family can't take it they turn to Job (scripture). But justice must prevail in this country and that's why I say justice delayed is sometimes viewed as justice denied."

Miller said there are times when he wishes God would "take me out of here" to allow him to be with his son. "Sometimes at night, Mr. Speaker, after these deep experiences, I would go and get my shotgun of out the closet and go downstairs, and by the time I get in the car, I would hear mama's voice saying, 'Go back inside.

You're only going to get in trouble. You got your other children to live for.'" he said.

"People don't know the pain, the agony, the hurt that those of us who would have experienced something I would never wish on no single human being, Mr. Speaker, in this world to go through.

"You don't know the sadness, the bitterness, Mr. Speaker, the loneliness that parents go through."

Miller said his appeal for justice is not just for his son, but for the many families in The Bahamas that have had sons and daughters ripped away from them.

Miller's comments came during debate on the amendment to the Criminal Procedure Code and Evidence Act.

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