The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

RODNEY Moncur is expected to have his “grossly indecent” picture-posting case forwarded to the Supreme Court today.

Moncur is scheduled to appear before Deputy Chief Magistrate Carolita Bethell this morning to be served with a Voluntary Bill of Indictment.

At his arraignment on April 4 in connection with posting a picture of a man who died in police custody on his Facebook page, Mr Moncur elected to be tried in the Supreme Court before a jury rather than a magistrate.

The VBI is a document that speeds up the trial process as prosecutors promised to have the Bill ready in a month’s time, May 10.

Moncur, a 56-year-old Market Street resident and former DNA candidate for Bain and Grants Town, faces a single charge of “committing a grossly indecent act”, claimed to have been committed between March 1 and March 29.

It is claimed that Moncur “intentionally and unlawfully” published a photograph of Jamie Smith, who had died. The magistrate granted him $7,500 bail with one or two sureties. Moncur posted bail the following day.