By LAMECH JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
ljohnson@tribunemedia.net
A WOMAN awaiting trial in connection with the murder of businessman Kurt McCartney has been denied bail a fourth time.
Lyndera Curry and her lawyer Sonia Timothy appeared before Senior Justice Stephen Isaacs yesterday to apply for bail ahead of her September 28 trial concerning the October 24, 2013 murder.
Ms Timothy argued that her client, whom she said has ties to The Bahamas and is not a flight risk, should not have to be in prison awaiting a jury’s verdict when the Crown hasn’t produced evidence against her.
Crown respondent Algernon Allen II countered that factual disputes arose with the applicant concerning the matter in question and said that issue is best reserved to be determined at trial by a jury.
Senior Justice Isaacs ruled that Curry had been previously denied bail in December 2013 and then in May and August of last year without contesting the decision of the Supreme Court to the Court of Appeal.
The judge said there was no unreasonable delay in the case which is less than three months away from starting. Senior Justice Isaacs further stated that there was nothing new in her applications and that a renewed application could amount to an abuse of process.
Curry was denied bail and remanded to the Department of Correctional Services.
Curry is charged with Sumya Ingraham, 26, Thorne Edwards, 23, and Okell Farrington, 31, of Pinewood Gardens.
They were also charged with armed robbery. It is claimed that while armed with a handgun, they robbed McCartney of his 2007 Hummer vehicle, valued at $37,000.
McCartney, the brother of Democratic National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney, was shot and killed in Gambier Village. Police discovered his Hummer a few hours after his death east of Traveller’s Rest restaurant. The accused were not required to enter a plea to either of the charges. They were remanded in custody.
A fifth person, 42-year-old Terry Delancy, the owner of Virgo Car Rental, was charged with being an accessory after the fact. He is accused of enabling Curry, Ingraham, Edwards and Farrington to avoid due process of the law. He pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Delancy was granted $15,000 bail with one surety. He was ordered to be electronically monitored.
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