More remand time for murder accused

The man who was charged last year with allegedly murdering two women in the City, about a year apart, has made another appearance before the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court .

When Demetrico Ricardo Layne, 29 of Graham’s Alley, Nelson Street, St Michael, appeared before Chief Magistrate Ian Weekes he was sent back to the Barbados Prison Service at Dodds for another 28-day remand.

The murder accused who has been on remand since August 2021 will next appear before the court on February 1.

Layne is accused of murdering Olivia Cecelia Carter on July 27, 2020, as well as Odith Nicole Henriques on August 2, 2021.

He is not required to plead to the indictable charges before the Magistrates’ Court.

Carter’s body was discovered on the site of an abandoned school in Henry’s Lane, while Henriques, a 44-year-old Jamaican, was found in the yard of an abandoned house in Graham Alley, Beckwith Street. Both women were discovered naked.