Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter
A TRIAL date is to be set in the murder case against reputed gang leader 42-year-old Joel Andem and his two co-accused when they return to court on May 26.
Andem is charged jointly with 44-year-old businessman Rupert Wallace, of Garveymeade, Portmore, St. Catherine and 24-year-old Rohan Masters, of 66 Luke Lane, Kingston for the murder of 48-year-old gas station operator Sylvia Edwards.
Mr. Justice Basil Reid remanded them in custody when they appeared in the Home Circuit Court Wednesday. A trial date could not be set because Masters' attorney was unavailable.
Mrs. Edwards who lived in Plantation Heights, St. Andrew, was kidnapped along Red Hills Road, St. Andrew in July 2000. When a demand for a ransom of $200,000 was not met, she was shot dead and buried in a shallow grave, in Constitution Hill, St. Andrew.
Wallace, Masters and 32-year-old craft vendor Howard Lindsay were convicted in 2003 of the murder. They appealed and in December last year, the Court of Appeal freed Lindsay and sent back the case of the other two men for retrial.
Andem was on the police's most wanted list for four years until he was captured in Clarksonville, St. Ann in May last year.
