HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC):

Leading lawyer Cherie Booth - the wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair - was due to arrive in Bermuda on Saturday night ahead of a court hearing in the case of murdered Canadian teenager Rebecca Middleton.

Booth, one of the Britain's leading Queen's Counsels, will represent the Middleton family at a Supreme Court judicial review on April 16 and 17.

The case involves the brutal rape and murder of 17-year-old Rebecca, at a remote spot at Ferry Reach, St. George's, in July 1996 while she was on holiday in the island.

No one has ever been convicted of her murder.

Two men were arrested in the case with Jamaican national Kirk Mundy, then 21, claiming to have had consensual sex with Rebecca and blaming Bermudian co-accused Justis Smith, then 17, for the killing.

Before police completed forensic tests, prosecutors accepted Mundy's guilty plea of accessory after the fact and he was sentenced to five years behind bars.