Magistrate Daly to preside over Bascom trial after initially recusing self

Detective Sergeant Dion Bascom and attorney Nigel Hughes

Barring a challenge, Senior Magistrate Leron Daly will preside over the trial of Detective Sergeant Dion Bascom on cyber-crime charges after initially recusing herself.

When the matters were called yesterday morning, Magistrate Daly told the court that she was inclined to recuse herself based on the “strongly” worded letter which was written by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack to the acting Chancellor of Judiciary, Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards, seeking to have the case reassigned.