A ‘bailer woman’ who confessed to using fake documents to obtain bail for several accused individuals is now seeking bail to attend her mother’s funeral.

When the matter was called up on Friday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court Christine Harvey pleaded guilty to two counts of each: obtaining bail by means of false pretense, conspiracy to defraud, uttering forged documents, and possession of forged document.

The court was told that an July 26, Harvey went to the Gun Court Registry on King Street in downtown Kingston and tendered a Government of Jamaica driver’s licence to securefor an accused. The following day the process was completed and the accused man was bailed.

Two months later Harvey returned to the same registry and tendered the same documents in her name to bail another man. However, the process was not completed. Two days later, when Harvey returned to complete the process, it was discovered that the licence was a forgery.

When she was pleaded for conspiracy, Harvey told the court that a man gave her the licence.

Before setting the sentencing date, Harvey, who was represented by attorney-at-law CJ Mitchell, beckoned to Chief Parish Judge Judith Pusey.

Clutching to a sheet of paper in the dock, Harvey indicated that she had a letter that she wanted Judge Pusey to read.

The letter was handed to the police officer who presented it to the prosecutor who then passed it to Pusey.

“How many times you get in trouble before?” Pusey asked after she read the letter.

“Mi no know enuh, your honour,” an unrepentant Harvey replied.

Pusey then advised Harvey to have her relative videotape the funeral.

“She nah go bury, your honour, because mi no have nobody else to bury her. I am the biggest one,” Harvey stated.

A fingerprint order was subsequently set and a November 21 date set for sentencing.

Machete-wielding babyfather remanded

Steadly Dinnall got the shock of his life on Friday when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court.

Dinnall, who confessed to beating his babymother with a machete, was remanded after he pleaded guilty to assault occasioning bodily harm.

Chief Parish Judge Judith Pusey asked Dinnall to give her one reason he should not go to jail.

“Go to jail? Go to jail, Miss? Mi no haffi go jail. Mi wrong fi hit her. Mi and har pacify it,” Dinnal replied.

“Tell me why you shouldn’t go to jail for it,” Pusey repeated. “You could spend three years (in prison) for it. You don’t have to deal with her since you pacify it with her.”

The man who was seemingly shocked could not give a reason.

Dinnall was subsequently remanded and a November 13 sentence date set.

‘Bailer man’ accused of using forged documents to bail murder accused

The ‘bailer man’ who was remanded in two months after one of three accused murderers whom he had bailed absconded while their trial was in session at the Home Circuit Court, is in further trouble.

Allegations are that James Bailey, otherwise known as Kenneth Walker, who apparently makes a living from standing surety for accused individuals, used fictitious documents to bail Devon Harriott.

Walker pleaded not guilty to three counts of uttering forged documents, making a false declaration, forgery, and attempting to pervert the course of justice when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Friday.

Walker was arrested and charged in September after he turned up to bail another accused person at the Home Circuit Court but was remanded after he told the court that he could not come up with the $300,000 — the amount for which he had stood surety for Harriott — who is now on the run.

The three men were on trial for the alleged gun murder of Craig Lewis at his St Catherine home in December 2009.

Lewis was at his home on December 9, about 6:00 am, reportedly ironing when three men barged in and shot him multiple times. However, five days later he managed to give the police a detailed statement identifying the men who had shot him before he succumbed to his injuries on December 18.

Prior to the trial, Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn gave instructions for the trial to proceed in the accused men’s absence.

The DPP also told Justice Gayle that she thought it was in the best interest of the public to bring Walker before the court and to determine if he knows Harriott’s current location.

According to the DPP then, Walker had told police that he did not know Harriott.

Walker is to return to court next month.

Man accused of stealing plantains maintains his innocence

A man who was allegedly seen leaving a premises with a bunch of plantains along with household items has maintained his innocence.

Daniel Harris pleaded not guilty to house-breaking, larceny and praedial larceny when he appeared in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court on Friday.

The court was told that the complainant saw Harris leaving the back of the premises with a gallon of kerosene, a bar of soap, a Pyro insecticide spray, and a bunch of plantains, valued at $4,000.

Harris will be brought back to court on November 21.