MONTEGO BAY, St James – Dave Supersad, the 38-year-old bus driver from Rockhall who allegedly strangled 25-year-old Debbie Warren in a fit of passion last month and then turned himself in to the police in Montego Bay, was last Friday remanded in custody in spite of a spirited request by his lawyer, Peter Champagnie, for bail.

“I view this as an exceptional case… it cannot be denied that Mr Supersad called the police (after the deed) …was very anxious to bare his soul…,” said Champagnie.

“It is the first where I am seeing a client so candid with the police investigators…He is a fit and proper candidate for bail.he has absolutely nowhere going… nowhere going…he has someone who depends on him for support. This was a crime of passion. She (the deceased) had a very intimate evening with him, then when he thought everything was okay, she said ‘listen man, you need to move on, I’ve found a man’,” Champagnie told the court.

However, Resident Magistrate Wilson Smith was unmoved by Champagnie’s detailed address, which included the circumstances under which his client acted.

“He is a fit and proper person to stay right where he is, I am not granting bail,” Smith told Champagnie.

“Even Satan could want to seek forgiveness, but there is none for him,” the magistrate added.

The magistrate also declined the opportunity to remove the case from the jurisdiction of his court, despite Champagnie pointing out that for convenience and economical reasons – namely that apart from the investigating officer in the case, all the other witnesses were based in Kingston – it would be better to transfer the case there.

Instead, the magistrate urged Champagnie and the clerk of the court, Lavern Walters, to seek a Voluntary Bill to pave the way for Supersad’s case to go directly to the Circuit Court for trial.

In the meantime, the case has been set for mention on March 29.