Accused murderers of four make appearance in court

The St Mary brothers accused of killing four people in separate incidents, including a Chinese couple, are to settle their legal representation.

Nigel Walters, alias ‘Troy’, and Nicholas Walters were yesterday remanded until June 2 when they made their first appearance in the Home Circuit Court via a voluntary bill of indictment, which allows for their case to bypass a parish court hearing.

Nigel, however, was the only defendant who appeared physically as his brother attended via Zoom.

In the first case, Chinese business operators, 53-year-old Shiyun Shu and 48-year-old Haikong Wan, were shot and killed during a robbery at their supermarket in Bellevue, St Elizabeth.

Three gunmen were reportedly caught on closed-circuit television (CCTV) posing as customers in the supermarket before the deadly attack.

The second incident involved 45-year-old businesswoman Sophia Brown and her customer, 58-year-old farmer Bernie Lewis, both of Long Hill district, Whitehouse, Westmoreland.

Brown was reportedly at her wholesale on January 12 when the brothers entered posing as customers. Both women were reportedly assisting the men when they were shot and killed.

Yesterday when the case was mentioned, the prosecutor informed Justice Simone Wolfe-Reece that the case files for both matters are incomplete.

In the St Elizabeth case, among the documents outstanding are the ballistic certificate, forensic certificate and a compact disc with footage. The post mortem report has already been received.

For the second matter, the crown is awaiting the post mortem.

The court was also informed that Nigel is yet to settle his legal representation even though he has retained a lawyer.

A mention date was subsequently scheduled for the files to be completed and for Nigel to retain a lawyer.

Both defendants were remanded.

Attorney-at-law Kerry-Ann Wilson is representing Nicholas.