Sea Lots resident Kenneth Browne and his ex-wife Melissa Browne, of Carenage, returned to the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday before Deputy Chief Magistrate Maria Busby Earle-Caddle accused of committing the capital offence sometime between March 8 and March 16 at Sea Lots.
Kenneth Browne, who is also the father of Joseph’s four-year-old daughter, faces an additional charge of illegally disposing a body.
It was their second appearance in court.
They first appeared on March 20 before then Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar, who has since been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court.
When the matter was called in the Eight Magistrates’ Court, police prosecutor Insp Winston Dillon informed Deputy Chief Magistrate Busby Earle-Caddle that the officer who laid the charges needed about two weeks to have the file forwarded to the Office of the DPP.
The matter was adjourned to May 16. The Brownes are represented by attorney Criston J Williams.
WPC Joseph was reported missing on March 9 when she did not appear for work and relatives tried to contact her . Her body was found by a fisherman in the Gulf of Paria on March 16. Her cause of death could not be determined by the pathologist.
WPC Joseph was last attached to the Morvant Police Station and was the mother of a fouryear- old girl.
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Sources: Newsday, Wednesday 19 April 2017. Police file still not sent to DPP in PC Joseph murder