Donna Vasyli at an earlier court appearance.
By LAMECH JOHNSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
ljohnson@tribunemedia.net
THE wife of murdered millionaire podiatrist Phillip Vasyli will have another bail hearing in Supreme Court after Court of Appeal judges ruled this afternoon that Senior Justice Stephen Isaacs did not explicitly give his reasons for denying bail to the 54-year-old Australian.
While Justices Anita Allen, Abdulai Conteh and Jon Isaacs allowed Donna Vasyli's appeal against the ruling in Supreme Court, the judges remitted the matter to Supreme Court before the same judge instead of granting bail.
However, the court added that the bail hearing must take place within two days of today’s decision.
Vasyli was denied bail when initially arraigned on March 30 for her husband's murder at Old Fort Bay six days earlier by Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt, who did not have the jurisdiction to consider a bond. Her lawyers, though, were able to get a bail hearing in the Supreme Court before the Easter holiday.
Senior Justice Isaacs noted the unusual speed in which the bail application appeared in the Supreme Court.
However, he said that there had been no unreasonable delay in the case nine days after the alleged murder and noted that Vasyli had not sufficiently satisfied the court that she should be granted bail.
Murio Ducille, who had argued that his client was a fit candidate for bail, was told that he could appeal the ruling to the appellate court.
See tomorrow's Tribune for full details.
Comments
ThisIsOurs 9 years ago
"Unusual speed"
duppyVAT 9 years ago
Soooo what??????? Who cares??????? Give her $20 million bail and let her go back to Australia in peace .................. Let their courts try her in by extradition. We cannot tie up our court time and resources with this foreign domestic case.
ThisIsOurs 9 years ago
I suppose the poor black young men languishing in jail for months, waiting for a hearing, care...
B_I_D___ 9 years ago
Personally I would have fired the last lawyer who was 'not ready to proceed' at the last bail hearing!
TalRussell 9 years ago
Ye who can guarantee you will never be 'accused' of sinning, throw the first stone.
Comrades how easy to test someone else right for bail consideration. Its not quite the same when it's yours or a loved one's freedom at stake. I can tell you this from reading the blog posts every time a bail issue pops up, that every damn thing I never want to hear from misinformed people about why judges should not be granting bail - seems raise its ugly had. There should be a law stating that, if you ever have opposed the granting of bail for another, you yourself must automatically be denied bail, if the situation should arise at a later period and time.
Comrades, if had God condemned any of us, based upon the accusations of others - we'd all done be burning in hell. Da Judges on the benches of our courts, and not the policeman's, are the people's designated judicial gods on earth.
Amen!
hurricane 9 years ago
Dumbest post of the day! Sometimes its just best to STFU if you have no clue what you're talking about,
TalRussell 9 years ago
I can't help but observe you are never satisfied to simply disagree with a point of view, you paint a negative picture in order to use someone else as a scapegoat for your own poisonous venom. Whatever turns your crank is okay with me, if it makes you feel all superior. But you would make a poor Comrade, so from this day I must never again on any blog page, address you as such.
John 9 years ago
They soon give her bail...they just waiting until they think aint too many people watching, then she will get bail and leave the country on a yatch free as a bird. Of course she is a mother and a grandmother so her family needs her.
John 9 years ago
A NEED FOR Local investigation? The 74 year old deputy sheriff who killed a suspect who was running away from an undercover sting operation to purchase illegal guns had purchased tickets for a trip to the Bahamas for himself and the sheriff who allowed him to carry a 357 magnum gun. The duputy shot the suspect to death but claims he thought he was using his taser and not the 357. The deputy was allowed to carry the weapon and act as a police officer because of his friendship with the sheriff and the various donations he made to his precinct. Is there any relationship between illegal guns and this duos trip to this country? How many times have they been here before? Begs further investigation
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