JEFFREY Perry, the St Mary man who was accused in 2005 of slashing the throats of his three young cousins then feigning insanity after he was caught, was last week appointed an attorney and is to return to the Home Circuit Court next month.

When Perry appeared in court last Friday, Attorney-at-Law Robert Fletcher confirmed that he would be representing him and asked that the matter again be mentioned on April 13.

After Perry was arrested for murdering Shadice Williams, 4, Dwayne Davidson, 15, and Suann Gordon, 13, on the night of January 28, 2005 while their mother Sonia Williams was at church, his previous attorneys claimed that he was of unsound mind and not fit to stand trial.

Several conflicting psychiatric assessments were subsequently done on Perry – both on behalf of the defence and prosecution – which led to a fitness-to-plea trial last January. That trial ended in favour of the prosecution.

Immediately after Perry lost his fitness to plea trial, his attorneys withdrew from the case. The attorneys said it would be difficult for them to represent Perry in a murder trial as he was unable to properly instruct them because of his mental problem.

Since then, a host of attorneys have interviewed Perry but have refused to take up his case.

Psychiatrist Dr Herbert Wieder testified during the fitness-to-plea trial that Perry had told him that God instructed him to kill the children. and that God and Satan often battle for control of his mind, with God losing sometimes.