MAY PEN, Clarendon – The security guard charged with the shooting injury of five male students at Vere Technical High School in Hayes, Clarendon and his boss were offered bail in the sum of $1 million each when they appeared in the May Pen Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

Basil Brown, who was employed to Blades security company, and the company’s managing director, Samuel Tulloch, who was charged with breaching the Private Security Regulations Act, will return to court December 18. Both men were ordered to surrender their travel documents as a condition of their bail.

Police investigators said Brown did not have a permit to use the weapon, and that Blades is an unregistered company.

Yesterday, the Justice Glen Brown questioned how Vere Technical could have employed the services of such a company.

Attempts to reach the chairman of the Vere Technical school board, which is responsible for procuring security services at the school, were unsuccessful.

The court was told that Tulloch, an ex-district constable, was employed to another security company and borrowed the gun used in the shooting, to use at Blades, a company he privately operates. Justice Brown suggested that Tulloch also be charged with illegal possession of a firearm.