WALTER Spike, an ex-policeman who fled the island after he reportedly shot and killed a girl, aged nine, in 2003, is to face a preliminary enquiry into the shooting on April 2.

The date was set last Thursday when Spike appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate's Court.

On another issue, Spike will know tomorrow whether or not he will be released from house arrest.

Spike, who is charged with the July 2003 shooting death of Renee Lyons in Majesty Gardens in Kingston, was offered bail last October under strict conditions which included house arrest.

But last Thursday, his attorney Ramona Nelson told Senior Corporate Area Magistrate Judith Pusey that the house arrest was proving to be a burden for her client and asked that his bail conditions be varied.

Pusey, however, rescheduled the application for tomorrow and extended Spike's bail. An April 2 date was set for a preliminary hearing into the allegations against the former policeman.

Spike was arrested and charged in August at the airport following his earlier deportation from the United States.

The prosecution is alleging that the child was playing in her yard in Majesty Gardens in Kingston when she was struck in the head by a bullet fired from Spike's weapon.

The ex-cop was reportedly chasing a man, who had a marijuana 'spliff', when he fired the weapon.

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