A JUDGE yesterday ordered the immediate release of a Jamaican national who was shuffled back and forth between the former Her Majesty’s Prison and the Carmichael Road Detention Centre for more than nine years without trial on sexual assault, housebreaking and murder charges.
Matthew Sewell, 27, appeared before Senior Justice Stephen Isaacs on a habeas corpus application seeking to challenge the state’s legal basis for holding him at the Detention Centre since November 2014 after the last of four criminal charges was dismissed against him in the Supreme Court...
A JUDGE yesterday ordered the immediate release of a Jamaican national who was shuffled back and forth between the former Her Majesty’s Prison and the Carmichael Road Detention Centre for more than nine years without trial on sexual assault, housebreaking and murder charges.
Matthew Sewell, 27, appeared before Senior Justice Stephen Isaacs on a habeas corpus application seeking to challenge the state’s legal basis for holding him at the Detention Centre since November 2014 after the last of four criminal charges was dismissed against him in the Supreme Court...
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