The preliminary enquiry into the case involving Robert Newman, the 44-year-old man from St Elizabeth who is accused of stabbing his 69-year-old aunt to death last year, is set to get under way later this month in the Santa Cruz Resident Magistrate's Court.

The case is to begin on April 23.

The prosecution and the defence agreed on the new date when the accused appeared in court last Thursday. The court was told that the forensic report, which had been outstanding from July last year, is ready.

Newman, an auto mechanic, of Content, Goshen district, in the parish, is charged with the murder of Ethlyn Hyman-Dixon, a returned resident of the same address.

Allegations are that on July 9, 2008, at 9:30 a.m., Hyman-Dixon spoke to her nephew about blasting his music and sleeping with his lover in her house.

The court heard that the accused allegedly got upset and a knife was used to stab the deceased all over her body. She died on the spot.