Judge Jon Isaacs on Friday refused an application to have the remaining murder charges against convicted killer Cordell Farrington quashed.
Farrington, 43, is already serving a life sentence for the 2003 murder of his live-in lover, Jamaal Robins, 22.
He is also charged with the murders of four of the five young boys who disappeared in Grand Bahama in 2003. He has yet to stand trial for those crimes.
Farrington’s lawyer, Romona Farquharson, had filed a request to have the court quash the remaining indictments because the long delay in bringing the cases to trial was a breach of Farrington’s constitutional rights.
However, in a closed court hearing, Senior Justice Jon Isaacs refused the application after hearing arguments form Crown prosecutor Neil Brathwaite.
Brathwaite said a matter can only be quashed if it is wrong in law. He said the Crown’s position had been that there was no unreasonable delay and that the matter should only be stayed if he could not get a fair trial. The Crown argued that Farrington can still get a fair trial. Farrington is expected back in court on September 23 for a fixture hearing.
Some people think Mr Farrington had nothing to do with the murders of the little boys and that he is being used as a scapegoat to prevent the Bahamas Police from looking like idiots because they can’t solve the case. This may have been the same tactic the police used in arresting Troyniko McNeil for the murder of handbag designer Harl Taylor. Mr McNeil was later acquitted.
