A High Court Judge has or­dered the re­lease of an at­tor­ney held for al­leged­ly har­bour­ing the man sus­pect­ed of the bru­tal mur­der of 22-year-old Can­dace Hon­ore.

Jus­tice Na­dia Kan­ga­loo or­dered the at­tor­ney’s re­lease as she up­held his habeas cor­pus writ yes­ter­day evening.

In the le­gal ap­pli­ca­tion, the at­tor­ney’s lawyer Bhi­mal Ma­hara­jh called on the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) to jus­ti­fy his client’s pro­tract­ed de­ten­tion.

Jus­tice Kan­ga­loo not­ed that af­ter the case was filed and served on Tues­day, the TTPS re­spond­ed yes­ter­day morn­ing by stat­ing that homi­cide de­tec­tives were ex­pect­ed to ap­proach the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) for ad­vice on pos­si­ble charges for the at­tor­ney and the sus­pect.

She point­ed out that when the case was called hours lat­er, no up­date on the dis­cus­sions with the DPP’s Of­fice was pro­vid­ed.

“As at this time, that is at 5.24pm, there is no fur­ther in­di­ca­tion as to the out­come of the con­clu­sion of the in­ves­ti­ga­tion and this court there­fore deems that the con­tin­ued de­ten­tion of the ap­pli­cant is un­law­ful,” she said.

Hon­ore, an as­pir­ing nurse, was re­port­ed miss­ing on Ju­ly 11 af­ter rel­a­tives af­ter she was not heard from for sev­er­al days.

Last Thurs­day, the Hunters Search and Res­cue Team, led by Val­lence Ramb­harat, found a suit­case in a pond in Va­len­cia.

The suit­case was re­trieved and found to con­tain plas­tic bags con­tain­ing body parts.

While homi­cide de­tec­tives be­lieve that the body was Hon­ore’s, DNA test­ing is still ex­pect­ed to be per­formed.

The 28-year-old sus­pect was ar­rest­ed at the lawyer’s San­gre Grande of­fice on Sat­ur­day. His lawyer was ar­rest­ed the fol­low­ing day.

Po­lice be­lieve that the sus­pect had been at the lo­ca­tion since the gris­ly dis­cov­ery was made.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors have al­so ques­tioned an­oth­er man, who claimed he was asked to use his wheel­bar­row to trans­port the suit­case from the sus­pect’s home.

The lawyer was al­so rep­re­sent­ed by An­dre Kooma­ls­ingh.

—Derek Achong