KINGSTON, Jamaica — A fresh trial on an unrelated murder charge was set to begin Wednesday for Omar Collymore who is currently serving a double life sentence for masterminding the January 2018 murder of his then-wife, Simone Campbell-Collymore, and cab driver Winston Walters.

Collymore and his four co-accused will return on September 18 following a request from the Crown on Wednesday for additional time to complete its file.

Collymore is serving a double life sentence for masterminding the January 2018 murder of his then-wife, Simone Campbell-Collymore, and cab driver Winston Walters, will on Wednesday be engulfed in a fresh trial.

In this trial he is to answer charges that he conspired to murder another woman with whom he was in a relationship.

Details of the alleged plot were to be unveiled on Wednesday when the Crown was expected to lay out its case against Collymore, who, alongside his co-accused Carey Jonas, Dwayne Pink, Michael Adams and Shaquille Edwards, is facing charges of illegal possession of a firearm, shooting with intent and conspiracy to murder.

Three of the four — Pink, Adams and Edwards — are currently serving time alongside Collymore for their involvement in the murders of Campbell-Collymore and Walters. Jonas is being indicted for the first time alongside Collymore and was not involved in the 2018 murders.

In the highly publicised and shocking incident, Campbell-Collymore and Walters were ambushed on January 2, 2018 and shot dead by gunmen on motorbikes outside the Forest Ridge apartment complex in Red Hills, St Andrew, where she lived with her then husband and children.

Campbell-Collymore was shot 19 times, and Walters five times.

The Crown at the close of their case established that Collymore ordered the hit to claim his wife’s multimillion Jamaican-dollar life insurance policies from which their two children were entitled to 15 per cent each, while Collymore was entitled to 70 per cent of the benefits.

— Alicia Dunkley-Willis