Andrew and Tristan Tate left the Bucharest Court of Appeal around 3pm on Tuesday. They stayed in the court building for six hours. They are yet to find out if they will be released from custody.
UPDATE 21.40: Tate brothers, ex-cop Luana Alexandra Radu and also Georgiana Naghel remain arrested. The Bucharest Court of Appeal rejected the appeal to preventive arrest.
“I am very disappointed. The decision seems excesive”, declared for Gandul, Eugen Videac, Tate’s lawyer. The four defendants will have to pay 500 lei each in court costs.
After sitting in court for six hours, the defendants were escorted by lawmen to the police van, which will take them directly to the Central Police Detention Center.
The judges have yet to rule and to announce the sentence in this case.
A mysterious man entered the CAB courtroom on Tuesday where the Tate brothers’ application for bail is being heard.
The man is not Romanian, he is British.
Carrying a briefcase with various documents, he talks to the guards at the Court of Appeal and with brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate’s lawyer, and after a while, he enters the courtroom. The trial takes place in the council chamber, which means the public does not have access.
It is a lawyer from England, specialized in rape cases, who defended the two brothers before the judges
According to information obtained by GÂNDUL, he is British lawyer Andrew Ford.
He is a specialist in criminal law and deals also with rape cases.