The Tribune

STEPHEN “Die” Stubbs returned to Her Majesty’s Prison yesterday after his bail application, ahead of a double abetment to murder trial in the Supreme Court, was dismissed.

Crown prosecutors and defence counsel continued arguments concerning whether or not the 37-year-old, of Ridgeland Park man should get bail while he awaited trial in the Supreme Court.

Yesterday was the second of a two-day bail hearing that led Justice Roy Jones to deny Stubbs bail.

Stubbs left court the same way he had entered, handcuffed, shackled and flanked by Drug Enforcement Unit officers.

He and co-accused 30-year-old Giovanni Roberts were charged two days apart near the end of July in connection with the September 15, 2011 double murders of Gamacio Jones and Clayton Smith.

It is alleged that the pair aided and abetted the murder of Jones and Smith, who were found in a white Maxima car in the middle of the road in Ridgeland Park with gun shot wounds.

Smith, who was shot in the back of his head, died at the scene while Jones died of his injuries in hospital two days later.

Stubbs had initially faced a third charge of abetment to murder in the August 21 shooting death of Delano Morris at Brougham Street. However, he was formally discharged of abetment to that murder on August 15.