Delon ‘Fatboy’ Reynolds is back in the High Court for a second time over the murder of self-confessed death squad informant George Bacchus.
Justice Claudette La Bennett read the indictment to him on Monday, but the trial is yet to commence. The defence has challenged the admissibility of a caution statement, which Reynolds allegedly gave to the police. The prosecution’s case centres on Reynolds’ alleged confession statement.
A voir dire (trial within a trial) is currently being conducted before Justice La Bennett. Reynolds had previously been arraigned in the High Court for the murder but the trial had been discontinued for various reasons.
Attorney-at-law Peter Hugh is appearing for Reynolds while State Counsel Judy Latchman is prosecuting.
Bacchus was found dead in his bed in his Princes Street home on June 24, 2004 after he made bombshell revelations about a death squad operating in the city, for which he said he once gathered information. His brother Shafeek Bacchus had been killed a few months prior.
Funeral parlour co-owner Debra Douglas and her nephew Fabian ‘Fabie’ Jessop had been jointly charged with Reynolds with the murder of Bacchus but they were subsequently freed owing to insufficient evidence.
