J’can’s bigamy trial adjourned to Sept

KINGSTOWN, ST VINCENT (CMC):

A Magistrate Court has adjourned to September 3 the trial of a 44-year-old Jamaican on a charge of bigamy.

On May 21, police arrested Claude Murray, a resident of Peruvian Vale, a community in eastern St Vincent. He was granted EC$5,000 (J$248,600) bail on a charge that he married two women.

Prosecutors are alleging that Murray is legally married in Jamaica but went through“a form of marriage”to a 54-year-old woman in St Vincent and the Grenadines on December 30, 2017.

But when the matter came up for trial at the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on Monday, the prosecution applied for an adjournment, saying they were not ready to proceed.

The court heard that the pastor who officiated in the ceremony in which Murray is alleged to have taken part was now overseas.