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Brangman to take case to Court of Appeal

Glenn Brangman, right, has lodged a second appeal against his conviction for sex assaults.

Former Bermuda Housing Corporation manager and Regiment Major Glenn Brangman has launched a further appeal against his convictions for sexually assaulting a young male BHC clerk.The news emerged yesterday at Magistrates’ Court, where the 60-year-old was to be sentenced for the string of sex attacks. He was convicted by magistrate Khamisi Tokunbo in February of assaulting the homeless 19-year-old clerk victim four times.Brangman launched an appeal to the Supreme Court, which he lost on October 29. He had been on bail throughout the case, but Chief Justice Ian Kawaley remanded him into custody following the failed appeal, and said Brangman must go back to the magistrate for sentencing.He could face a maximum of five years in prison, and was due to receive his punishment yesterday morning. However, defence lawyer Shade Subair told Mr Tokunbo that Brangman has now filed a notice that he intends to challenge the Chief Justice’s ruling in the Court of Appeal.She asked Mr Tokunbo to delay the sentencing proceedings and release Brangman on bail pending the outcome of the Court of Appeal bid.However, Mr Tokunbo said it appeared to him, based on his interpretation of the law, that Ms Subair would have to make those requests to the Supreme Court, now the further appeal has been filed.Ms Subair then asked the magistrate if he would be willing to proceed with the sentence, but order a pre-sentence report and release Brangman on bail while it is written.Mr Tokunbo refused, and told Ms Subair and prosecutor Nicole Smith to come back to court next week to make submissions about which court ought to deal with Ms Subair’s applications. He remanded Brangman into custody until the next hearing date.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.Brangman’s appeal is likely to be heard in March, 2013.