By SANCHESKA BROWN
Tribune Staff Reporter
sbrown@tribunemedia.net
POLITICAL activist Rodney Moncur will have his “grossly indecent’ picture posting case tried in the magistrates’ court instead of the supreme court which he had requested.
Mr Moncur was scheduled to be served with a Voluntary Bill of Indictment yesterday when he appeared before Deputy Chief Magistrate Carolita Bethel however he was told that the Attorney General’s Office decided to have a preliminary inquiry in the lower court.
Mr Moncur objected and said “justice is not being served.” Magistrate Bethel told him it was the prosecutor’s right to decide where the case would be heard.
After a brief shouting match between the magistrate and Mr Moncur and Moncur threatened with being thrown out of court, Magistrate Bethel transferred the matter to Court 2.
Mr Moncur then appeared before magistrate Constance Delancy who told him he did not have to enter a plea due to the nature of the charge.
Moncur 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 was dead.
Mr Moncur requested that his $7,500 bail be reduced because he was “being held prisoner by two nice women” who signed his bail.
He also requested that he be provided with the evidence that the prosecution has against him so he can “properly defend” himself.
Magistrate Delancy told Mr Moncur his bail would remain in place and she ordered the prosecution to release the evidence to Mr Moncur.
Before being escorted out of the court room Mr Moncur said: “This is a show trial and I am on exhibition and the court should have never allowed this to happen. This is unfair. I am defending myself, I am a poor man and I beg the court to be tolerant with me because I am under great stress.”
The PI on August 15 and 16 will determine if there is enough evidence for the matter to be tried in Supreme Court.
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steplight 10 years, 11 months ago
Why nothing seem to make sense. Moncur is stressed out wondering how the Bahamas became hell on earth for him so suddenly as well as for those who have no idea ther eis a diffference between murder and a mystery in crime. The act of killing one or more human beings, usually as an offering to a deity, as part of a religious ritual (ritual killing). Its typology closely parallels the various practices of ritual slaughter of animals and of religious sacrifice in general. Human sacrifice has been practiced in various cultures throughout history. Victims were typically ritually killed in a manner that was supposed to please or appease gods, spirits.the mysteries of crime in a country where evil prevailed because good people remained silent. Grossly indecent picture for the Bahamas . Mysteries abound in the Commonwealth Of The Bahamas - Jaime Smith [sacrifice] was killed in police custody with Rodney Moncur [2013] was placed before the courts, sent to jail, house burns down and nothing seems to make sense doing in such a small country; the police said it was mistaken identity in the shooting death of a Job Munnings[sacrifice] leaving his kids fatherless with his family distraught along with other families calling out for justice, the blantant shooting of Clayton Fernander [sacrifice] silences their the cry for slaughtered love ones; Archie Miller [sacrifice] a good police officer is killed in a covert operation by a police officer, everything goes quiet nothing ever comes back as a report to say what went on after that; Michael Knowles [sacrifice] is killed in the cell block at Central Police Station it is labeled a suicide, the female member of Parliament For Englerston gets kicked out of the House Of Assembly for bringing it to the floor of Parliament and that goes quiet. If one takes note of all of these incidences the common denominator is the police remains quiet in the midst of aggravated negligence and wanton disregard for human lives which shows human rights violation. From July 14th 1992, the execution style murder of Truma Cooper a police officer with silence from political parties, religious communitiesand the policeforce in general spoke volume of what would be allowed. When a police officer was stripped naked on duty while serving this country honourably and no national mourning took place, then we can see it has been far from what has been perceived as justice as the police made certain of that. Though the profession of policing is honourable, the entire intent to do what is right for the nation must be questioned.
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