Busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed, his wife Genevieve and their for­mi­da­ble le­gal team were left dis­ap­point­ed last night, af­ter Chief Jus­tice Ron­nie Boodoos­ingh and two Ap­pel­late Judges grant­ed a stay of a de­ci­sion of three of their col­leagues to or­der them re­leased and placed un­der house ar­rest.

The stay was sought by lawyers rep­re­sent­ing the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) and the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, af­ter Ap­pel­late Judges Pe­ter Ra­jku­mar, Mi­ra Dean-Ar­mor­er and Joan Charles up­held the cou­ple’s ap­peal chal­leng­ing a de­ci­sion by High Court Judge Frank Seep­er­sad to refuse their in­ter­im re­lease on Thurs­day.

De­liv­er­ing an oral de­ci­sion af­ter hear­ing lengthy sub­mis­sions from State at­tor­neys and the cou­ple’s lawyers at the Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain last night, Boodoos­ingh and Jus­tices Mark Mo­hammed and Ricky Rahim ruled that the bal­ance of jus­tice re­quired the stay pend­ing the fi­nal de­ter­mi­na­tion of an ap­peal be­fore the Unit­ed King­dom-based Privy Coun­cil.