Re­lief swept through Blue Wa­ters yes­ter­day af­ter­noon af­ter the Court of Ap­peal or­dered the re­lease of the com­pa­ny’s ex­ec­u­tive chair­man, Do­minic Hadeed, and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, from cus­tody, with em­ploy­ees de­scrib­ing the de­ci­sion as a wel­come de­vel­op­ment fol­low­ing more than three weeks of un­cer­tain­ty.

But feel­ings of de­spon­den­cy and shock re-emerged last night af­ter em­ploy­ees learnt that the cou­ple would kept in prison.

The cou­ple, who had been de­tained since June 24, will re­main in prison, af­ter a three-mem­ber pan­el over­turned the ear­li­er de­ci­sion of a dif­fer­ent pan­el that the cou­ple should be re­leased from prison and be kept un­der house ar­rest at their home in Bayshore un­der strict con­di­tions in­clud­ing elec­tron­ic mon­i­tor­ing, the sur­ren­der of pass­ports, firearms and com­mu­ni­ca­tion de­vices.