A St Ann-based policeman, who is accused of the murder of a man in the parish, has been released on bond.
Constable Ransford Wisdom, who is attached to the Runaway Bay Police Station, was offered $300,000 bail in the St. Ann's Bay Criminal Court on Tuesday.
Constable Wisdom, who was arrested last month, was charged Monday night, with the murder of Murphy Joe Charles, a resident of Pear Tree Bottom, in Runaway Bay.
Mr. Charles was shot in the community on August 18, this year.
Constable Wisdom, who was on duty at the Runaway Bay Police Station, reportedly left the station and went to Pear Tree Bottom to meet a woman.
The policeman was in a car with a woman, when Mr. Charles allegedly peeked into the vehicle.
Constable Wisdom pulled his gun and shot Mr. Charles who deid at hospital.
However, Constable Wisdom told the cops that he was in the car with the woman when a man surprised them, and entered the vehicle.
He reported that the man began groping the woman, and he jumped from the vehicle.
The Constable said he pulled his gun when he saw another man running towards him.
He said he fired a shot the man.
Before he died, Mr. Charles reportedly told the police who shot him.
Homicide detectives made a breakthrough in the case when they removed a bullet from his body.
The cops also ran tests on a spent shell, found at the spot where Mr. Charles was shot.
This led the detectives to Constable Wisdom.
They seized his licensed firearm, and tests were conducted on the weapon which linked him to the fatal shooting of Mr. Charles.
Constable Wisdom who is being represented by defence attorney, Oswest Senior Smith, is to return to court on December 2.
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