KINGSTON, Jamaica — Simeon Sutherland, the man who is charged with the murder of People’s National Party parliamentarian Dr Lynvale Bloomfield is scheduled to stand trial on October 28.

A trial date was set when the matter was called up in Portland Parish Court yesterday.

Meanwhile, Sutherland’s bail was extended after Attorney-at-law Peter Champagnie asked the court to have his client’s bail continue on the same conditions he was offered.

At the same time, Champagnie noted that he will be applying for the matter to be instead tried in Kingston as his client would not get a fair trial in Portland.

Bloomfield’s body was found at his house in Passley Gardens, Portland on February 2 with multiple stab wounds.

Sources close to the probe said that bloodstains were in sections of the house, as well as in the yard.

Days later Sutherland was detained as a person of interest in the Portland Eastern Member of Parliament’s murder, but was released. However, he was rearrested in March after scientific evidence allegedly linked him to the crime scene.

Racquel Porter