Remand

The Crime Branch investigating the sensational crime moved to the court seeking extension of remand as the four days remand of Gopal Das came to an end today.

The HC, however, said it found that the remand order was not opposed by the ‘remand advocate’, who appeared on behalf the activist before the trial court, and the memo of arrest was offered to be given to his sister.

Hlohla (40) and former physical planner, Takura Mabaya (34) were arrested last Thursday and they gave the State notice that if it failed to provide a trial date on the next remand date they will apply for remand refusal.

A day earlier, a court in the capital sent him on a two-day physical remand in the case filed against him by the election commission.

Agago County MP, Hon. David Lagen emphasised the need to concretize traditional institutions like the family rather than building remand homes.

Agnes Mponda, 24, who is on remand for alleged murder, shares similar sentiments.

Alcohol was also an issue, but he had served the equivalent of an 18-month prison sentence and achieved a number of certificates while in custody on remand.

All of the accused were produced in the concerned courts and taken on remand for seven to 11 days.

An Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate sent the accused to nine days of police remand on Monday.

CCJ Judge, Winston Anderson described the criminal justice system as “broken” as in a number of countries citizens spend between five and 10 years or even 15 years on remand before their trials begin.

Dancey-Stevenson, who denied the offence but was found guilty by a jury following a trial, must serve a minimum of 18 years in prison, minus time already spent on remand.

Eight suspects were charged in connection with the miner’s death: Wayne St. Hill, Shane “Demon” Morgan, Roberto Sankar, and Steve Rollox are on remand for the murder.

Four out of ten prisoners have not been convicted and are on remand.

Gary Hampson, 24, of Ecroyd Road, Ashton, who pleaded guilty to just one offence, was jailed for two years in his absence after he refused to attend court from prison where he had been on remand.

He had spent six weeks in prison on remand.

However, after returning to the court, she held that the question of rejecting the remand would not arise since she had already remanded the Minister in judicial custody.

I am not unaware of the claim that Mr. Bawa is being detained on the basis of a remand order issued by a Magistrate Court in the Federal Capital Territory.

If you look at that PEB, there are multiple issues that they remand back to the parties.

In September 2020, Leeds Crown Court determined then 36-year-old Crowther would be detained in a mental health facility and he was jailed for life with a minimum term of 12 years (minus his time on remand).

Instead of seeking police remand for custodial interrogation, the SIT requested for his judicial custody.