MRS. JUSTICE Marva McIntosh yesterday ordered 42-year-old reputed gang leader Joel Andem and his two co-accused to return to the Home Circuit Court on July 11 when their murder trial will begin.
They are charged with the murder of 48-year-old gas station operator Sylvia Edwards. The other two accused are 44-year-old businessman Rupert Wallace, of Garveymeade, Portmore, St. Catherine and 24-year-old Rohan Masters, of 66 Luke Lane, Kingston.
Mrs. Edwards, who lived in Plantation Heights, St. Andrew, was kidnapped along Red Hills Road, St. Andrew in July 2000.
SHOT AND KILLED
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 most-wanted list for four years until he was captured in Clarksonville, St. Ann in May last year.
