The previous supervisor of musician Man Sebastian has efficiently obtained a keep of his retrial over allegations he defrauded his well-known consumer till he’s paid practically $1m in authorized charges.
Titus Emanuel Day was jailed for a minimum of 2½ years in November 2022 after a jury discovered him responsible of 34 fraud-related prices, together with misappropriating greater than $620,000.
He continues to disclaim the allegations and efficiently quashed his convictions on attraction final 12 months. The supervisor to the celebrities was as a consequence of face a retrial in Might 2025.
Nonetheless, his attorneys Thomas Woods and Lauren MacDougall utilized for a keep of the trial till the Director of Public Prosecutions compensates Mr Day for his authorized prices.
On Thursday, Decide Mark Williams granted the appliance and ordered Mr Day’s retrial be stayed till the Crown pays him $960,000 for prices thrown away through the trial and attraction.
The Crown was given till January 15, 2025 to pay the sum or the retrial is not going to proceed.
The prices awarded to Mr Day exceed the roughly $620,000 he’s alleged to have defrauded from Mr Sebastian.
“It’s now a matter for the Crown to find out whether or not to proceed in gentle of the court docket right now ordering that the trial be stayed pending fee to Mr Day of $960,000,” Ms MacDougall stated after the choice.
The NSW District Court docket was beforehand advised the preliminary trial and attraction value Mr Day greater than $1m, however the Crown prosecution had solely supplied to pay $296,000.
Prosecutors contended the prices claimed by Mr Day’s attorneys included authorized charges for his separate authorized issues and had been difficult by a change in illustration after the trial.
Mr Day grew to become Mr Sebastian’s supervisor in 2009 and the pair grew to become shut buddies earlier than that they had a bitter falling out eight years later.
Mr Sebastian claimed he had discovered anomalies in his monetary data that he blamed on his then supervisor.
He launched authorized proceedings towards Mr Day to recoup the cash he claimed he was owed.
Mr Day hit again with a counterclaim through which he alleged he was the one owed cash by the award-winning musician.
Each males have continued to disclaim the allegations towards them.
