Alleged arsonist granted 100K bail Spread the love Twenty-one-year-old Shukur Hodge appeared before Magistrate Ngaio Emanuel-Edwards yesterday afternoon, having been recently charged with arson. Hodge’s lawyer, Wendel Robinson, in making an oral application for his client to receive bail, indicated that the young Villa resident has been in custody since the day of the incident. Robinson said that consequently he was planning to file a writ of habeas corpus because more than 48 hours had passed before his client was charged and brought to court, and that is a “breach of my client’s rights,” he said. The attorney further stated that he’d indicated to the police that he wished to be present when his client was interviewed, but they “disrespected me by not having his lawyer present while he was giving his statement.