The Tribune

By LAMECH JOHNSON

Tribune Staff Reporter

ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

A MAN accused of the country’s seventh and eighth murders for 2014 said he would submit an alibi to the Attorney General’s office in 21 days.

Pedro “Stitchie” Dean appeared in Magistrates Court yesterday for a Voluntary Bill of Indictment presentation that would fast-track his case to Supreme Court for trial. The case is in connection with the slayings of Landris Curry and Drayson Forbes, both of Dundas Town, Abaco.

Chief Magistrate Joyanne Ferguson-Pratt informed him of what the Bill contained and his right to enter an alibi in court or in 21 days to the Attorney General’s office.

Dean, of Murphy Town, chose the latter and is now scheduled to appear in the Supreme Court before Senior Justice Jon Isaacs to receive a date for trial.

He faces two counts of murder that he is alleged to have committed on January 18.

That day, around 2.50am, officers were on patrol on SC Bootle Highway when they noticed the reflectors of a vehicle on a track road on the western side of the highway.

The officers followed the light and discovered a light blue Maxima with a man slumped in the passenger seat with a gunshot wound in the back of his head. Curry was pronounced dead at the scene.

Later, at around 9am, police got a tip that led them to another body, this time in bushes near Bahama Coral Island.

The victim, later identified as Forbes, was also shot in the back of the head.

Dean will be allowed to enter a plea to the murder charges in his Supreme Court appearance on July 18.