The Supreme Court has shut the door on a fresh bid for bail by Constable Marlando Rowe, ruling that he cannot relitigate bail decisions that have already been challenged even up to the Privy Council, Jamaica’s final appellate court.

The Clarendon lawman was among six persons charged in a multimillion-dollar smishing scam involving an elderly bank customer in 2024, after US$5,500 (about J$840,000) was transferred from the complainant's account to his.

Justice Wint-Blair, in her judgment handed down last month, found that Rowe, who has been in custody for more than a year, had exhausted his statutory right under the Bail Act, 2023, to challenge earlier rulings, The court, therefore, had no jurisdiction to revisit the matter.