Bush wants ‘incompetent’ ODPP to try him again: Cayman News Agency

(CNS): Congressman McKeeva Bush expects the Attorney General’s Office to continue its case against him alleging he molested two women at a cocktail party nearly two years ago. He told CNS he also thinks the Attorney General’s Office, which he called “incompetent,” may also appeal a court order earlier this year that halted his trial for an abuse of process.

Bush canceled two planned public meetings on the investigative committee he planned to call for as he waited to see how events unfolded.

Gag Order Judge Stanley John’s ruling The ban was imposed after a failed indecency trial last year. Wednesdaywhich gave the ODPP the green light to proceed with charges against Bush.

The judge stayed the trial because he found the justice system had been abused in relation to one of the accusers in the case. He found Bush’s legal team was withheld important information that should have been disclosed. He also found that one of the women who allegedly assaulted him and Cabinet Secretary Sam Ross were both forced to give evidence against Bush against their will.

After the ruling was released yesterday, Bush told CNS that the entire incident was a display of “the most egregious incompetence I have ever witnessed,” and that he believed the undue pressure on witnesses came directly from the governor’s office.

He said Premier Martyn Roper (the current premier’s predecessor) asked him to resign as speaker the morning after the cocktail party where the alleged attack took place, “before anyone knew what had really happened”.

Bush said he was very concerned about people close to the Cabinet secretary who were documented in the judge’s ruling to provide evidence against him, even though Ross was not present at the event. Bush does not believe any members of the media, including the CNS reporter and the owner of Cayman Marl Road, pressured Ross, but believes it may have been the governor and his political opponents who did.

Bush’s biggest concern, however, is a series of governors’ direct interference in the justice system, including the recent case against him in the Roper case, which dates back to Duncan Taylor He was charged with corruption for misusing a government credit card. Acquitted in 2014.

Bush Request for a commission of inquiry At the time, he sought to investigate abuses of prosecutorial process, but that never happened. He has now reiterated that call and has scheduled two public meetings on the matter, one in George Town on Thursday night and another in West Bay on Saturday. However, when he spoke to CNS this week, he said he had canceled both meetings.

Bush is filing a private member’s motion calling for a commission of inquiry to look into what he sees as improper and direct interference in his case and abuses of process by the governor’s office.

He said the independence of the ODPP was vital “because the country needs the proper services of prosecutors”. However, he questioned that independence and suggested the British had been troublesome for years. “We don’t need this interference,” he said, adding that he believed others had also been wrongly prosecuted because of incompetence and inappropriate interference.

However, following the ruling, he said he would not call for a public inquiry for now, given his belief that the ODPP would hold him to account again.

While Bush has not heard anything from the ODPP, he said he expects the ODPP will seek a new trial on at least two counts from the original indictment that the court no longer stayed. He believes the ODPP may also seek to appeal the stayed counts, even though the witness in the case has repeatedly said she does not believe Bush committed a crime for what he did to her, even though the actions were “creepy and bizarre.”

“I’m a politician and I’ve heard some things and I’ve heard they’re considering it,” he said of his possible retrial on four counts. “If they’re stupid enough to spend public money on a retrial and we have so many other things that need that money, let them do it … the truth will come out.”

Bush maintained his innocence, even denying he was drunk at the time, and reiterated his stance that the charges against him were not based on real evidence but were politically motivated. He said this was evident from how the ODPP had built its case against him despite at least one witness, if not two, who made it clear at the first trial that she did not think Bush had done anything wrong.

He claimed that keeping the ruling secret was not to protect him or to prevent potential bias in the rape case against him, which ended in an acquittal on Monday, but to prevent possible allegations of bias against prosecutors because the ruling made it clear that the ODPP director and some staff deliberately abused and undermined the system.

Bush said the ODPP is “trying to mitigate the impact of her loss,” which is another reason she may file another indecency charge.