Woman charged with murder of Finnish husband back in court July 27
June 14, 2006
THE case involving a Jamaican woman and a fellow villager who were charged more than seven months ago with murdering her Finnish husband, is to come up in the Trelawny Resident Magistrate's Court again on July 27.
The new date was set last Wednesday when the case was mentioned before Resident Magistrate Frank Williams in the Trelawny Resident Magistrate's Court in Falmouth.
The woman, Melody Baugh-Pellinen, 24, bar operator of Lyssons, St Thomas, is charged jointly with Marvin Stewart, 30, carpenter, with the shooting death of her 57-year-old husband Dr Timo Pellinen, in Trelawny in October 2005. Both are on bail and are charged jointly also with conspiracy to murder Dr Pellinen, who practised medicine in Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
Their file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for review, after which, legal sources say, he may send the matter to the Circuit Court on a voluntary bill of indictment, after a nolle prosequi (termination of criminal proceedings) is entered in the RM Court.
Attorney-at-law George Soutar is representing Baugh-Pellinen, who is on $750,000 bail, and attorney-at-law Ronald Koathes, is appearing for Stewart, who is on $500,000 bail. Both have been ordered to surrender their travel documents and to report to the Morant Bay Police Station in St Thomas on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 6:00 am and 8:00 pm.
Dr Pellinen was shot dead on the Harmony Hall main road, Trelawny, on the night of October 1, 2005, while his wife was driving him to Ocho Rios, St Ann, from the Sangster International Airport, Montego Bay....
Author: Observer Reporter
Source: Jamaica Observer
