REPUTED Klansman gang leader Tesha Miller has been further remanded in police custody following the refusal of his bail application in the Home Circuit Court on Wednesday.
Miller's application was refused on the basis that he left the island illegally in 2005 while on bail, pending trial for the murder of four persons.

Following the failed application, a September 29 date was set for 27-year-old Miller and his co-accused to go on trial for the April 7, 2004 murder of Robert Haughton on St John's Road in Spanish Town.

The second charge, which involves three counts of murder for the January 14, 2005 gun slaying of Oraine Jackson, Jeffery Johnson, and Nicole Allen in Braeton, St Catherine, was set for mention on September 18. Miller has been charged along with Rohan Brown in these murders.

Miller's attorney Everton Bird argued to no avail that when his client fled the island to the United States in 2005, he did so out of fear for his life - triggered by a police officer's comment which he interpreted as a threat.

In asking for his client to be admitted to bail, Bird told the court that the prosecution's case was very tenuous and said that his client had religiously adhered to his bail condition, except for the time when he fled to the US.

Miller was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment last year for absconding bail.

Meanwhile, Bird's junior in the matter, Valerie Neita-Robertson, alleged that Miller was only re-arrested this month because his name was being linked to last month's shooting death of then JUTC chairman Douglas Chambers at the Spanish Town depot.

Miller was arrested earlier this month for another bail violation. His arrest sparked a fiery demonstration in Spanish Town where the Klansman gang is based.