Helper awaits trial for murder of gas station owner
Sandra Watt, the helper suspected in the murder of her former boss, businessman George L G Brown, and his fiancé, and co-accused Donald Whyte are yet to be transferred from the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate Court to the Home Circuit Court where their trial is to take place.
Watt and Whyte were expected in the Home Circuit Court Friday to stand with a third accused, Peter Dugal, who is already at the Circuit Court, but the nolle prosequi to effect the transfer from the RM Court was not executed as expected.
When Dugal appeared in the Home Circuit Court before Justice Marva McIntosh, a date of October 27 was set, by which time Watt and Whyte are expected to be transferred.
The three are accused in the 2005 shooting death of Brown, former head of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association and owner of the Esso gas station at the corner of Constant Spring Road and Dunrobin Avenue in Kingston, and businesswoman Sandra Campbell. The two were murdered at Campbell’s home on Stilwell Road in Stony Hill, St Andrew, on June 5.
Dugal was later arrested after being shot during a shoot-out with the police in Grants Pen, St Andrew, and Brown’s 9mm pistol found on him. His arrest led to that of Watt. Whyte was nabbed this year at 6 Love Lane in downtown Kingston.
A trial date could be set on October 27, providing that the file is completed by then.