Wife granted $900,000 bail, husband remanded in St Mary cocaine case

The woman who was arrested and charged last week alongside her husband in connection with cocaine allegedly found at their home in St Mary has been granted $900,000 bail.

Sixty-three-year-old retired factory worker Sonia Burgess Edwards, a dual citizen of Jamaica and the United Kingdom, was granted bail following an application by her attorney, King's Counsel Peter Champagnie, in the Portland Parish Court in Port Antonio.

Her husband, John Edwards, was remanded.

The couple was arrested and charged with possession of and dealing in cocaine following the seizure of approximately three pounds of the substance.

The cocaine was allegedly found concealed in a section of the primary bedroom at their home in Huddersfield, St Mary.

In making the bail application, Champagnie told the court that immediately after the cocaine was discovered, his client declared that she had no knowledge of its existence.

The attorney further submitted that Burgess Edwards was not a permanent resident at the property, explaining that she regularly visited her husband from the United Kingdom.

The court subsequently granted her bail with strict conditions, including the surrender of all travel documents.

Both accused are scheduled to return to court on November 23.

Attorney-at-law Nathan Geddes Morrison is representing the husband.

- Tanesha Mundle

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