The man implicated in the murder of his Manchester girlfriend had his bail extended when he appeared in the St Mary Circuit Court last week.
The accused man is Patrick Moodie, alias ‘Chen’ or ‘Ramas’ of Mason Hall district in St Mary.
Moodie was charged with the 2016 murder of 30-year-old Samantha Lindsay, also known as Trudy from Chudleigh district in Manchester.
Moodie was being sought, for close to two months, as a person of interest in relation to the murder until his capture in July of last year.
When the case was brought before Justice Dale Palmer, on Thursday, April 20 in the St Mary Parish Court, two statements remained outstanding on the case file. These were the ballistic certificate and the forensic certificate.
As a result, the case is to be mentioned on July 17. Moodie’s bail wad further extended until then.
Police investigators believed that Samantha Lindsay was on her way to visit Moodie at the time of her death. It is further understood that Lindsay, who had been working in St Ann for some time, had a relationship with him.
Police reports are that residents heard explosions at about 9:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, in the Grants Town area in St. Mary. The police were summoned and Lindsay was found on the ground with a bullet wound to the head. Lindsay died at hospital.
Moodie was on the run after allegedly committing the murder and was picked up on Saturday, July 30, 2016 in Gaza, Steer Town, St Ann, by the St Ann police.
He was later handed over to the St Mary police and charged with Lindsay’s murder.
Moodie’s case was committed to the circuit court on April 20 after senior parish judge Yvette Wentworth-Miller after she determined that a prima facie case had been made out against him.
Moodie was reoffered bail in the sum of $500,000 with surety. In addition, he is also to surrender his travel documents and a stop order also attached.
