CORPORAL Randolph Mullings, the member of the prime minister’s security detail who is facing charges relating to a stolen motor car, was yesterday granted $500,000 bail when he appeared in the Yallahs Resident Magistrate’s Court.

Mullings, who has been charged with receiving a stolen motor vehicle, conspiracy to receive a stolen motor vehicle and possession of fraudulent motor vehicle documents, was also ordered by the presiding magistrate to report to the Morant Bay Police Station on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Mullings’ co-accused – Lloyd Bannister, Robert Lewis and Judith Fuller – were also granted bail, in the sum of $750,000, and were also given the same reporting conditions. The trio was ordered to surrender their travel documents and a stop order was put into effect for them. They are each charged with receiving stolen motor vehicle and conspiracy to receive a stolen motor vehicle.

According to Mullings’ attorney, Valerie Neita-Robertson, when her client turned up for court yesterday, there was no magistrate to hear the matter, as was allegedly the case when the policeman first appeared in court on Thursday when the presiding had allegedly called in sick.

Neita-Robertson, adamant that she would not allow her client to spend the weekend in prison, said she contacted the senior puisine judge for the area, who in turn contacted the chief justice, Zalia McCalla.

McCalla, according to Neita-Robertson, then ordered that a magistrate from the Half-Way-Tree Court go to Yallahs to oversee the matter.

Following the attorney’s arrival at Yallahs, attorneys for each of the four clients made bail applications, which were granted. They are to return to court on August 15.

According to the police, Mullings was accosted in Bull Bay, St Andrew where he was spotted driving in the blue Toyota Corolla, bearing licence plate 93929 EY, which Adrian Ricardo Clarke operated as a taxi before he went missing on June 26. The policeman was taken to the Yallahs Police Station where he was interrogated for several hours.

Mullings, according to a source close to the case, allegedly told investigators that he had bought the car. The documents for the vehicle, however, appeared to be forged while the police say modifications were also made to the vehicle.

Following further investigations by the police, Bannister, Lewis and Fuller were arrested and charged.

In the meantime, the police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating Clarke, otherwise called ‘Rickey’ and ‘One Gun’, of Poor Man’s Corner in St Thomas in connection with the case. Clarke, the police said, walks with a limp to the right foot, is of dark complexion, slim built and approximately 170 centimetres tall. The 21-year-old was last seen wearing a pair of knee-length jeans pants, and a red jersey with red, beige and yellow stripes on the sleeves.