KAREEM Allen, son of murdered Southside community don ‘Chubby Dread’, was offered bail in the sum of $750,000 when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court on a charge of murder, recently.

Allen was offered bail by Senior Puisne judge, Justice Gloria Smith, following an application by attorney Vincent Wellesley. He was offered bail with several conditions, including a curfew order and a stop order preventing him from legally leaving the island before the conclusion of his trial.

During his bail application, Wellesley pointed out that the witness said in his statement and during the preliminary enquiry in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court that there was only one assailant, yet the police held another man in relation to the killing and swabbed his hands for gun powder residue.

Wellesley told the court that the apprehension of the other man must have been as a result of what the witness told the police. The attorney also told the court that his client told him that the witness identified him during what is called a confrontation identification parade, but only after first identifying another man.

Allen, a 32-year-old bearer of a downtown Kingston address, has been charged in relation to the September 28 murder of Anthony Swaby. The killing occurred at a shop at the intersection of Higholborn and East Queen streets in the Southside community of Central Kingston that was once ‘ruled’ by his father, ‘Chubby Dread’, whose real name is Franklyn Allen.

The witness, who is from the downtown Kingston area, had said that he was driving by the shop when he saw a man pull a gun from a back pocket on his pants and put it to the head of another man and fired.

Allen is to appear again in court on November 6.