SORT head Insp Mark Hernandez. - FILE PHOTO/ROGER JACOB
ATTORNEYS representing head of the Special Operations Response Team (SORT) Insp Mark Hernandez have written to Police Commissioner Gary Griffith, giving him until 4 pm Friday to release Hernandez.
They have warned if Griffith fails to do so, they will approach the High Court for a writ of habeas corpus for the commissioner to justify Hernandez’s continued detention.
Hernandez has been in custody since about 6.45 am on Wednesday. Attorney Wayne Sturge said he had been “incarcerated in excess of 53 hours, far beyond the reasonable common law limitation for the detention of a citizen without charge.”