A homeless man pleaded not guilty to murdering a gas station employee and leaving his body in an abandoned building.

Coleridge Narado Hayward, 22, of no fixed abode, denied killing Cornell Stanley Jones last March during yesterday's monthly arraignments session in Supreme Court.

Defence lawyer Peter Farge made no application for bail and Chief Justice Richard Ground ordered that Hayward be remanded in custody until May 2 when his trial date is set.

The body of Mr. Jones, 47, was discovered on March 17, 2004, in a derelict house on Valley Road in Paget.

Meanwhile, another homeless man denied stabbing Nicholas Anthony Dill to death in his Pearman's Hill, Warwick, home on December 26, 2004.

Andre Kirk Everett Hypolite, 33, pleaded not guilty and also denied unlawfully wounding Stacy Ann Pike with intent to do her grievous bodily harm at the same place and time.

Director of Public Prosecutions Vinette Graham-Allen objected to bail and Mr. Justice Ground remanded Hypolite in custody until May 2 when his trial date will be set.

Ms Pike was treated at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital for a deep gash in her skull, allegedly inflicted with a machete.

There were 40 Police officers involved in a three-day hunt for the suspect until he was apprehended near Middle Road, Southampton, on December 29, 2004.

Several Police officers lined the entrance to Supreme Court as two men charged with conspiring to murder three Police officers and two witnesses before the courts appeared for mention, but they did not enter pleas as their lawyers sought to quash the conviction.

Kenneth Sinclair Durrant, 53, of Ord Road, Warwick and Javon Ernest Gardner, 27, of Crossfield Lane, Sandys are charged with conspiring to murder Sgt. Arthur Glasford, P.c. Terry Trott, P.c. Llewellyn Edwards, Sharrieff Wales and Dion Ford on or about November 29, 2004.

Mr. Justice Ground set the matter down to be mention on April 1 and remanded them in custody.

George (Messy) MacDonald Liburd, 32, of Pembroke, accused of murdering mother-of-three Chena Danette Trott in August, 2002, will go to trial on September 6.