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Jolyan Silvera
Former Western St Mary Member of Parliament (MP), Jolyan Silvera, who is charged with the murder of his wife Melissa, will take his fight for bail to the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
A court schedule on the Appeal Court's website shows that a bail application/appeal is to be heard by video conference at 2:30 pm, with Justice Jennifer Straw hearing proceedings.
Silvera was initially denied bail last May.
In February of this year, the Home Circuit Court in downtown Kingston set January 12, 2026 as the trial date for the murder matter.
High Court Judge, Justice Vinette Graham Allen, also ordered a trial readiness hearing date for September 25, 2025.
The accused former legislator was remanded in custody.
Jolyan Silvera was charged with murder after a post-mortem report indicated that bullet fragments were found inside his wife’s body after she died at the couple’s upper St Andrew home on November 10, 2023. This contrasted initial reports that she died in her sleep, supposedly from natural causes.
Following investigations, Silvera was charged with murder in January of last year. He has been in custody since then.
He represented the People's National Party (PNP) in Western St Mary in the 2011 General Elections, defeating the Jamaica Labour Party's (JLP) Robert Montague.
However, the script was flipped in 2016 when Silvera lost his re-election bid against the same JLP opponent.
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