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Kissing men walk free
Two men of Montego Bay addresses were questioned and released by the police on Sunday after they were observed passionately lip-locking inside a car along the Bull Bay Road in Lucea, THE STAR has been told.
Allegations are that about 1:30 a.m. the police observed the men making out in a white Toyota Corolla and approached them. A source told THE STAR that the men began "fixing up themselves" when the police approached the vehicle.
One police source said that the men were not charged, as there was no legal grounds on which to do so.
An attorney with whom THE STAR spoke said that the only possible charge that the men could have faced was that of gross indecency, under the outrages on decency section in the Offences against the Person Act.
That clause of the act states that any male person who, in public or private, commits, or is a party to the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
The lawyer, however, continued that applying the gross indecency charge may be <span style="font-weight: bold">very subjective, as the relationship of the men, type of kiss and other factors may have to be brought into consideration</span>
Two men of Montego Bay addresses were questioned and released by the police on Sunday after they were observed passionately lip-locking inside a car along the Bull Bay Road in Lucea, THE STAR has been told.
Allegations are that about 1:30 a.m. the police observed the men making out in a white Toyota Corolla and approached them. A source told THE STAR that the men began "fixing up themselves" when the police approached the vehicle.
One police source said that the men were not charged, as there was no legal grounds on which to do so.
An attorney with whom THE STAR spoke said that the only possible charge that the men could have faced was that of gross indecency, under the outrages on decency section in the Offences against the Person Act.
That clause of the act states that any male person who, in public or private, commits, or is a party to the commission of, or procures or attempts to procure the commission by any male person of, any act of gross indecency with another male person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and being convicted thereof shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour.
The lawyer, however, continued that applying the gross indecency charge may be <span style="font-weight: bold">very subjective, as the relationship of the men, type of kiss and other factors may have to be brought into consideration</span>