The man who is charged in connection with the brutal murder of six members of a family in St. Thomas on February 26 last year appeared in the Home Circuit Court yesterday.

He is 39-year-old Michael McLean who was remanded until May 9 for legal representation to be settled.

A preliminary inquiry was not held in McLean's case as the Director of Public Prosecutions preferred a Voluntary Bill of Indictment this week and sent the case for trial in the Home Circuit Court.

McLean is charged with the murder of Patrice George-McCool, 28; Sean Chin, Jr, nine; Lloyd Marshall George McCool, three; Jihad George McCool, seven; Jesse O'Gilvie, nine; and Terry-Ann Mohammed, 40, all of Duhaney Pen, St. Thomas.