A preliminary inquiry into the murder of retired tutor Calvin Fitz-Henley, the uncle of South Central St Catherine member of parliament Sharon Hay-Webster, is expected to start in October.

The date for the inquiry was set when the suspects – Sudiq Sudine and Richard Beckford – appeared in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate’s Court recently.

Both men were arrested hours after Fitz-Henley’s body was found with several stab wounds and the throat slashed on a grassy patch at Holborn Road in New Kingston in the early hours of May 19.

The court was told on a previous occasion that the prosecution is in possession of video recordings from a surveillance camera which shows the two suspects beating the elderly man who had ventured onto a property they were guarding.

Fitz-Henley was thrown from the property following the alleged beating hours before his body was discovered.

The men are, however, maintaining their innocence.

Fitz-Henley, 76, was the operator of the Fitz-Henley Secretarial Institute for over 30 years.

He was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease – a brain disorder – and was last seen by his sister who had taken him to buy produce at Orange Street in downtown Kingston two days before his body was found. He is said to have wandered away while the woman was paying a vendor.