RANDY BLYTHE’S CZECH ATTORNEY SAYS VOCALIST “WILL BE ALLOWED TO TRAVEL HOME”

Randy Blythe has been in jail in Prague for nearly a month — but it looks as though he may finally taste freedom. In a new interview with Radio Prague, Martin Radvan, the Lamb of God frontman’s Czech attorney, revealed that Blythe has already paid the $400,000 bail set by a Prague Municipal Court last week, and “only due to long travel time between the Prague Municipal Court and the court for Prague 8” has he not been released.

Furthermore, Radvan thinks that Blythe will be able to leave the Czech Republic upon his release… at least for now:

“Everything indicates that he will be allowed to travel home. But he will have to come back either for further investigation or the trial, and that’s what he wants to do. As a world-renowned artist, in a specific genre of music of course, he cannot afford to simply disappear. This is a wrong assumption by the Czech police and the Prague municipal prosecutor who still believe there is a possibility he will disappear and never show up again.

“But there would be posters with his picture all around the world, and if he wants to continue performing, he will have to return. And he wants to return because he believes he is not guilty of anything he has been charged with.”

As Radvan says, prosecutors have previously sought to block Blythe’s release on bail, since they they believe him to be a flight risk. And under Czech law, they can attempt to block his release yet again, despite the Court’s decision last week. But fingers crossed, Randy Blythe will be finally be coming home very soon.

-AR

[via The PRP]