The judge set the date on an application by Buxton villager Eusi Kwayana, who has requested an order or rule nisi of certiorari, directing the DPP to show cause why he took over and halted the prosecution.

Justice Cummings-Edwards said she had the benefit of reading Kwayana’s supporting affidavit and has instructed that the relevant documentation be served on the DPP.

Kwayana said he knew the deceased as another resident of Buxton, whose home was visited on April 6 by Merai and a party of policemen who kicked down the door of the building and entered the premises.

The attestation by Kwayana said Blair was taken into the living room of the house and shot at point blank range by Merai.

Kwayana said, after Blair was killed, he collected statements from several persons and retained the services of legal counsel who advised that a charge for the capital offence be filed against Merai.

The complainant said the lawyer’s advice was followed on April 28, prior to the intervention by the DPP, at Vigilance Magistrate’s Court, on East Coast Demerara, too, where Magistrate Brassington Reynolds made the disclosure about the discontinuation.