?Alleged drug dealers Livingstone Napoleon and his wife, Ingrid, will be released on R50000 bail each with strict conditions.
These conditions include semi-house arrest and having to report to police every day.
Their son, Gladwin, will be released on R20000 bail with similar conditions.
Their release follows a successful appeal to the Grahamstown High Court against an East London bail court decision.
The three were arrested along with the Napoleon couple’s twin sons, Mohammed and Marvelous, following a police sting operation and raid.
The bail court was told how police agents made video and audio recordings while allegedly buying large quantities of mandrax tablets from members of the family.
The operation culminated in a July raid on the couple’s home where police allegedly seized 2011 mandrax tablets valued at about R64000 as well as a scale, cash counting machines and R1.39-million in cash.
In a raid on Gladwin’s Braelyn home police allege they seized dagga and mandrax tablets and some R79000 in cash.
The magistrate’s court granted only the twins bail.
Judge Jeremy Pickering yesterday ruled although the magistrate had been correct in finding the state had a strong prima facie case against the couple, it did not necessarily follow that they were a flight risk.
He said neither had been cross-examined during their bail appeal on the likelihood of them evading trial.
Pickering said given the fact that it might take up to a year before their trial started, it would not be in the interests of justice to keep them in jail.
Pickering ordered all three to report daily to the Buffalo Flats police station and remain in their homes between 6pm and 6am every night.
He also ordered them to report to court on September 4 for their trial.
Judge grants Napoleons bail
These conditions include semi-house arrest and having to report to police every day.
Their son, Gladwin, will be released on R20000 bail with similar conditions.
Their release follows a successful appeal to the Grahamstown High Court against an East London bail court decision.
The three were arrested along with the Napoleon couple’s twin sons, Mohammed and Marvelous, following a police sting operation and raid.
The bail court was told how police agents made video and audio recordings while allegedly buying large quantities of mandrax tablets from members of the family.
The operation culminated in a July raid on the couple’s home where police allegedly seized 2011 mandrax tablets valued at about R64000 as well as a scale, cash counting machines and R1.39-million in cash.
In a raid on Gladwin’s Braelyn home police allege they seized dagga and mandrax tablets and some R79000 in cash.
The magistrate’s court granted only the twins bail.
Judge Jeremy Pickering yesterday ruled although the magistrate had been correct in finding the state had a strong prima facie case against the couple, it did not necessarily follow that they were a flight risk.
He said neither had been cross-examined during their bail appeal on the likelihood of them evading trial.
Pickering said given the fact that it might take up to a year before their trial started, it would not be in the interests of justice to keep them in jail.
Pickering ordered all three to report daily to the Buffalo Flats police station and remain in their homes between 6pm and 6am every night.
He also ordered them to report to court on September 4 for their trial.
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