According to [allegedly corrupt] Prison Superintendent Dr. Elliston Rahming, Officer Sandy Mackey returned to work about a month ago after taking vacation for a “fairly extended period.”<\/p>\n
“The Prison Act says that the superintendent may suspend someone with half pay if charged before a court of law, and he has not been charged,” Dr. Rahming explained.<\/p>\n
He said Officer Mackey will also continue to receive his full salary and has been transferred to the facility\uff92s Remand Centre.<\/p>\n
A four-woman, three-man jury unanimously found Officer Mackey responsible for the death of murder convict, Neil Brown, while he was on a prison bus in the Yamacraw Road area following his recapture in the early morning hours of January 17.<\/p>\n
The jury determined that the circumstances surrounding Brown\uff92s death constituted murder.<\/p>\n
Jurors also found prison inmates, Forrester Bowe, Barry Parcoi and Corey Hepburn, jointly responsible for the death of prison guard, Dion Bowles. <\/p>\n
Bowe, Parcoi and Hepburn are being held in prison.<\/p>\n
But formal charges against Officer Mackey have been held up pending a constitutional review. <\/p>\n
Mr. Mackey\uff92s attorneys insist that their client\uff92s constitutional rights were violated during the six-week coroner\uff92s inquest. <\/p>\n
They are pushing for the Supreme Court to quash the entire proceedings. <\/p>\n
They argue that the coroner\uff92s court has no authority to conduct an inquest into a prison break, but only deaths.<\/p>\n
But the constitutional motion has yet to be heard.<\/p>\n
When contacted by the Bahama Journal, Officer Mackey\uff92s attorney, Dion Smith, could not say when the motion would be heard.<\/p>\n
“I have no clue. We are waiting on a transcript of the whole process because some of the arguments are based on the grounds that certain things were said,” Mr. Smith told the Bahama Journal. <\/p>\n
“And so we would need to formalize skeleton arguments for the case.”<\/p>\n
Mr. Smith said his client is anxious to put the entire ordeal behind him. <\/p>\n
“I have not spoken to him for weeks, but he is quite confident,” he said. “He still maintains his position.”<\/p>\n
Officer Mackey maintained his innocence throughout the entire case.<\/p>\n
Meantime, Assistant Superintendent at Her Majesty\uff92s Prison James Farrington reportedly remains on administrative leave, a move that came soon after he appeared as a key witness in the coroner\uff92s inquest. At the time, he implicated two of his colleagues<\/p>\n
Inside sources had revealed that many of Mr. Farrington\uff92s colleagues, who complained that there was an insurmountable level of mistrust as a result of the senior officer\uff92s testimony, even signed a petition calling for his removal from the Fox Hill facility.<\/p>\n
Mr. Farrington had reportedly applied for an extended vacation leave that is expected to end in November.<\/p>\n
By: Macushla N. Pinder, The Bahama Journal<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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