Brangman gets bail pending sexual assault case appeal
Former Bermuda Housing Corporation manager and Regiment Major Glenn Brangman was released on bail yesterday, pending an appeal against his sex attack convictions.Brangman was jailed for three-and-a-half years on November 15 for sexually assaulting a male BHC clerk on four occasions.The 60-year-old launched an immediate appeal against the prison sentence but Magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo told him he will have to wait behind bars until the appeal is heard by the Supreme CourtBrangman had already appealed his conviction at Supreme Court, and lost. He was remanded into custody after that ruling against him on October 29. He now plans to take that aspect of his case to the Court of Appeal when it returns to the Island in March.Yesterday morning, in a behind-closed-doors hearing at Supreme Court, Brangman’s lawyer Shade Subair made a successful application for bail, pending the appeal to Supreme Court against his sentence.This newspaper requested access to the hearing in the chambers of Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves, but got no reply before the hearing. Speaking afterwards, Ms Subair said “he’s got bail” and “we are appealing all the way”.The Royal Gazette revealed at the end of Brangman’s trial in February how he had been accused by 13 male soldiers of sexual misconduct before he was ordered to retire from the Regiment in 2002. Nothing was ever proven against him, and the Human Rights Commission dropped an investigation into the allegations on October 25.