Man charged for 2016 murder

Pierre, who was reported missing on January 20 last year, was found in a gravel pit in Vega de Oropouche on February 29, 2016. A post-mortem concluded that he had been shot.

On Wednesday, instructions were received by the police from Director of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard SC, to charge James with murder. PC Travis Chatar of the Homicide Bureau of Investigations, Region II, laid the charge.

Pierre lived at Manzanilla Main Road, Manzanilla while the accused lived at Rampersad Trace, Vega de Oropouche, Sangre Grande.

The matter was postponed to March 29.