MONTEGO BAY, St James — Well-known western Jamaica-based attorney Gordon Brown is to face trial for obstruction of justice in the St James Parish Court on July 21.

The date was set when the case was called up in the St James Parish Court on Friday.

He is being represented by fellow attorneys Henry McCurdy and Carolyn Reid-Cameron, QC.

Brown was charged in connection with his representation of businessman Michael Issa, the stepfather of nine-year-old Gabriel King, who was murdered on January 13.

Issa was charged with resisting arrest and indecent language when he went to the police station, hours after his stepson was allegedly abducted and killed, to report his licensed firearm missing. He was charged with negligent loss of firearm. The gun, which was said to have gone missing on December 17, 2021 and is unrelated to the child’s death, was later found and the related charges dismissed.

However Issa is to go on trial on May 16 to answer to charges of resisting arrest and indecent language.

Gabriel, who was autistic, was found with his throat slashed and his body slumped on the back seat of his mother’s car shortly after she told police assailants dragged her from her car and drove away with her child in it.

The incident allegedly took place on the Tucker main road in St James. The car was quickly found on Oak Hill Avenue in Fairfield Estates.

There have been no arrests in the case and no suspects named.

Gabriel was cremated on March 4.