POLICE WITNESSES are to be questioned in court today in relation to allegations of death threats against the main witness for the Crown in the double murder case of well-known Matthews Lane resident, 48-year-old Donald 'Zekes' Phipps.
Phipps was denied bail last week when he appeared in the Home Circuit Court .
K. Churchill Neita, Q.C., and attorney-at-law Lloyd McFarlane will renew the bail application in court today.
Phipps' co-accused, 33-year-old Garfield Williams, is on bail in the sum of $1 million with a surety.
They are charged jointly with the murder of Rodney Leroy Farquharson and Dayton Williams both of Bayshore Park, eastern Kingston .
The burnt bodies were discovered on April 15 in an open lot at Rose Lane near Matthews Lane, downtown Kingston.
The bodies had gun shot wounds to the heads.
Paula Llewellyn, Senior Deputy Director of Public Prosecutions is representing the Crown.
Phipps is to appear before Mrs. Justice Marva McIntosh.
