Tyrone Meighan and Orel Leslie – they are out on $25,000 bail tonight awaiting retrial. They are accused of the November 2012 murder of James Norales. They had been acquitted in 2015 but the Belize Court of Appeal ordered a retrial in March last year - which meant they were both re-arrested. Both men were granted bail on the condition that they report to the Queen Street Police Station every Monday and Friday starting on March 5 th; that Leslie remain in his home every day from 9:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. until the matter is completed; that Meighan remain at his residence every day from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. until the case has concluded. They both must attend court on March 13th and on each and every other adjourned date. They also have to surrender all their travel documents to the court; and of course they are not to interfere with any of the prosecution witnesses.
Brandon Baptist was also acquitted of Norales’s murder in 2015. But Baptist was not freed because he has another murder case for which trial is pending.
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