Tall Pines MP Leslie Miller said yesterday it was never his intention to accuse businessman Dion Bowe of the 2002 murder of his son, Mario Miller.

"When I speak, I speak with sincerity and I speak with truth," Miller told The Nassau Guardian.

"I don't try to impugn anybody. I call a spade a spade.

"This man approached me as I was minding my own business. I simply told the story and I called his name at the end and said this is the fellow who told me that. "

Leslie Miller never said that Mr. Bowe killed Mario Miller. "I never said and nor will I ever say that Dion Bowe killed Mario Miller.

"I will never say that because it was not true. I don't believe it and I know better because I know who killed him, but it was not Dion Bowe. No ifs, no buts and no maybes."

Miller has come under fire for his remarks in the House on Monday where he named Bowe as a man who said "he was going to have my son killed".

"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 said in the House.

"[He] calls himself a business consultant. The gentleman I'm talking about is a fellow named Dion Bowe.

[I've] seen him around town." Bowe, who spoke with The Nassau Guardian the next day called for Miller to repeat the "scurrilous remarks" outside the House where he has no legal protection.

He also denied any involvement in Mario's murder and said that Miller defamed his reputation. However, Miller said it never "crossed my mind" that Bowe killed his son.

"I never ever said that; never will I say it; nor do I have any belief of it. It never crossed my mind," he maintained. "...It was never intended. I simply told a story and said who told me that story."

Mario Miller's mutilated body was found in June 2002 in bushes near the Super Value food store in Winton not far from his home.

After three trials, no one has been convicted of the murder. "I am passing the place right now, Super Value, where he was butchered," Miller said yesterday.

"I'll take that from here to heaven. But you know there is a time and place for everybody. But it wasn't Mr. Bowe."

Prime Minister Perry Christie said on Tuesday that parliamentary privilege should not be used to accuse someone of a crime.

In one of its recommendations to the government, the Constitutional Commission said while it did not think limitations should be placed on parliamentary privilege, citizens who are subject to unwarranted personal attacks should have the right to respond from the bar of either chamber.

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