Questions raised over bail decisions for man facing multiple rape charges

Thurston Semple

Having already been charged with raping three women, questions have been raised as to why Thurston Semple had been consistently granted bail.

A fourth charge was laid against him last Friday.

On January 13th, 2018, the then 33-year-old Tucville Terrace man had been placed before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, who had granted him $200,000 bail on charges of allegedly raping two women. 

The taxi driver had been allowed his pretrial liberty in the sum of $100,000 for each charge—the first of which stated that between November 30th, 2017 and December 1st, 2017, he raped a woman.