Accused in Danielle Rowe murder case to return to court May 16

Dental assistant Kayodi Satchell, who is charged with the murder of eight-year-old schoolgirl Danielle Rowe, was this morning remanded for a plea and case management hearing on May 16.

The date was scheduled when the 30-year-old defendant appeared in the Home Circuit Court before Justice Leighton Pusey.

The Crown indicated that the case file is complete and it is ready to proceed to trial.

Defence attorney Patrick Peterkin, in the meantime, is to take further instructions from his client on how she will be proceeding.

The deceased, who was a second grade student at Braeton Primary and Infant School in Portmore, St Catherine, was abducted on June 8 last year from her school.

The child was seen later that day with her throat slashed, wandering on Roosevelt Avenue in St Andrew.

She was rushed by persons in the area to the Bustamante Hospital for Children, where she died two days later.

The post mortem report revealed the child died from an incised wound to the neck.

Investigations by the police led to Satchell being arrested on August 11 last year.

She was subsequently charged with murder.

- Tanesha Mundle

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