THE MAN who is charged with the murder of former president of the Jamaica Gasolene Retailers Association (JGRA), Lloyd G. Brown, and his fiancée, Sandra Campbell, is to be tried on September 27.
He is Peter Dougal, 39, of Santoy district in Hanover. He has been in custody since he was arrested in June 2004.
The trial date was set when Dougal appeared last week before Justice Paulette Williams in the Home Circuit Court.
Brown, 62, and Campbell, 49, were fatally shot about 4 a.m. on Sunday, June 6 at Campbell's Stilwell Road home in Stony Hill, St. Andrew.
Later that day the police went to premises at Vineyard Town where a group of men allegedly engaged them in a shoot-out. It is being alleged that during the incident, Dougal was shot and injured and two firearms recovered. Dougal was allegedly found in possession of Brown's photograph.
Forensic tests carried out on the guns proved that one of them was used to murder Brown and Campbell.
The police have theorised that it was a contract killing.
