Diego teen in court for killing student

A DIEGO MARTIN teenager yesterday appeared before a Port-of-Spain magistrate charged with killing a St James secondary school student. The charge of murder was read to 17-year-old Stephen Emery, of Upper Covigne Road, Diego Martin, by Chief Magistrate Sherman Mc Nicolls at the city’s Eighth Magistrates’ Court. It is alleged that sometime between December 12 and 15, Emery and others murdered 16-year-old Stellon Davis of Palm Avenue, Petit Valley.

Davis’ bound and gagged body was found in a shallow grave in a bamboo track on Covigne Road. The indictable charge was laid by Cpl Brian Marcelle of the West End Police Station. Emery, a former student of the Diego Martin Junior Secondary School, was represented by attorney Andrew Casimire, who told the magistrate he was ready to proceed with the preliminary inquiry. acting police prosecutor Insp Jules George had no objections and said the State would be ready in two weeks. Mc Nicolls told George to disclose all relevant documents to the defence before the start of the inquiry. Emery was remanded at the Youth Training Centre and will reappear in court on January 5, 2005.