PEOPLE'S National Party (PNP) activist Milton 'Tony' Welsh, 59, was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $3.5 million, a day after a second panel of 12 jurors in little over a year failed to reach a verdict in his murder retrial.

He was charged with murder following the January 2006 stabbing death of 21-year-old Damion Hussey, who was killed following a meeting launch of Peter Phillips' presidential bid for the PNP.

As a condition of his bail Welsh was temporarily banned from attending any public political gathering.

Justice Leighton Pusey offered bail to the party activist, with one, two or three sureties, after taking into consideration that it was Welsh's second hung jury and that he turned in himself after the murder of Hussey.

Also as part of his bail condition, Welsh was ordered not to go back to Golden Spring, where the murder occurred, and was ordered to report to the Bull Bay Police Station between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm. He was also ordered to surrender his travel documents.

Welsh will next appear in the Home Circuit Court on January 11, 2008 where a date for the commencement of the third trial is expected.

Should the third trial end with a hung jury, Welsh would have to be freed.

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