The case involving two men charged in relation to a St Ann murder is to be committed to the circuit court.
Junior White and Shawn Thompson are the men charged for the 2014 murder of Dwight Asphall.
When the men appeared before senior parish judge Andrea Thomas on Thursday, March 16, a hearing date was set for April 7. Both men were remanded in custody until that date. After the case is heard the matter is set to be transferred to the St Ann Circuit Court.
The files in the matter are expected to be served on the men’s attorney before the date of the hearing.
Reports are that the mutilated body of 41-year old Dwight Asphall was found inside his home at Mount Edgecombe in Runaway Bay, St. Ann by the police on Friday, August 8, 2014. Asphall was living in the US for a number of years and had only returned to Jamaica three months prior to his demise.
Asphall was found with multiple stab wounds.
Thompson and White were subsequently taken into custody and charged for Asphall’s murder.
At that time it was reported that the men (Thompson and White) were brought to the Discovery Bay Police Station by a taxi operator, after he made observations that the men who had taken his taxi, were covered in blood.
