Dates have now been set for the preliminary inquiry in a Bay Roberts first-degree murder case.
Three people are charged with planning and killing a 42-year-old man from Spaniard’s Bay.
Forty-one-year-old Matthew Kavanagh and 28-year-old Stephanie Noftall, both of Harbour Grace, and 34-year-old Terry Cole of Carbonear are also charged with indecently or improperly interfering with a body.
The victim’s remains were found on Sept. 30th in a pickup that had been set on fire on Country Road in Bay Roberts. The three suspects were arrested five days later at a home in Harbour Grace.
They appeared briefly and virtually again this morning in Harbour Grace provincial court from custody at HMP, and corrections centres in Clarenville and Stephenville.
Eight days have been set aside for the preliminary inquiry, from August 11th-20th, which will determine if there’s enough evidence to proceed with a trial.
Meanwhile, Cole and Noftall are due back in court next week to face more than a dozen charges each in a separate case involving property crimes, a slew of driving offences, thefts and flight from police.
