The discovery of Jahmal and Jahmil Cooper?s bodies on a ledge at Abbot?s Cliff can be defined as one of the most shocking and disturbing events of 2005 and with a trial looming in the New Year, it?s far from over.

On April 13, exactly one month after the 20-year-old twins went missing, their badly decomposing bodies were found on a protruding ledge about 20 to 30 feet above sea level on the remote 60-foot cliff in Devonshire.

It was alleged the pair were kidnapped and then assaulted at a Crown Hill, Devonshire, address before being moved just as Police were about to pounce.

Police were tipped off about the whereabouts of the bodies earlier that week by neighbours who were concerned about the smell at the secluded spot in Hamilton Parish.

It took Police more than 30 hours to reach the bodies.

The bodies, half-way down a sheer cliff face covered with shrubbery, could not be reached by foot and abseiling experts managed to reach the scene which was shrouded in undergrowth.

At about 7.30 that night the bodies were finally brought away from the scene and rushed to a morgue where they were placed under armed guard. The twins vanished after last being seen getting into a jeep at the junction of Court and Elliott streets in Pembroke in the early hours of March 13.

The following day a massive search and appeal was launched ? followed by a reward of $10,000 offered for information.

The twins? mother, Rochelle Zuill Cooper, made an emotional appeal for their safe return three days after they disappeared as it emerged that the twins were taken to a house in Devonshire, where Police say they were ?held against their will? and repeatedly assaulted by a number of individuals before being moved shortly before a Police raid.

The house where forensics experts had been gathering evidence from blood spills in the storage room was destroyed by arsonists ? it was later revealed the two Police officers guarding it left one side of the house exposed.

Two men were eventually charged with murder. One of them, 33-year-old Kenneth Jermaine Burgess lived in a house on Cottage Hill Road which is very close to Abbot?s Cliff while the other, the 34-year-old Dennis Alma Robinson lived in Palm Valley, Southampton. The two men, represented by Victoria Pearman and Queen?s Counsel Courtney Griffiths and will go to trial in the Supreme Court on January 4.