Jury selected for Cascade murder trial

A 12-member jury was yesterday empanelled for the trial of the two San Juan men charged with the July 2001 Cascade triple murder. The 12 were subsequently relieved until Monday, when the trial is expected to commence at the Port-of-Spain Second Assizes Criminal Court, before Justice Herbert Volney. Legal submissions will be presented before Volney during the rest of this week by defence attorneys Mario Merritt and Wayne Sturge, and State attorneys Trevor Ward and George Busby. 

The bodies of John Cropper, 59, Maggie Lee, 83, and visiting Canadian resident, Lynette Lichglow Pearson, 51, were found with their throats slit at a Mt Ann Drive house at Second Avenue in Cascade on July 13, 2001. They had reportedly been murdered sometime between July 11 and 13. Two men, 21-year-old Daniel Agard and 25-year-old Lester Pitman, both of Upper Bush Street, Maitagual, San Juan, were charged with the murders in December 2001.