🔨 Man pleads not guilty to 2022 murder charges

54-year-old Kirk Lindsay Watler from Bodden Town has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. He appeared via video link from HMP Northward in Grand Court on Friday. Watler is accused of killing 51-year-old George Ian Duffell during a late-night confrontation in a West Bay yard on Birch Tree Hill Road in October 2022. The charges were not laid until November 2023, over a year after the incident. 🚔

Watler was arrested shortly after the alleged crime. He is represented by Crister Brady and was remanded in custody following his denial of the charges. A date for the jury trial has been set for June, and it is expected to last approximately three weeks. ⚖️