The po­lice of­fi­cer charged with killing sib­lings Sime­on and Sini­aya Lessey at the Courts Mega­s­tore, San Juan on De­cem­ber 17 – did not ap­pear in court as sched­uled to­day.

In­stead, PC Sid­ney Roberts is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court to­mor­row.

Ju­di­cial of­fi­cers ad­vised that fol­low­ing the procla­ma­tion of the Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice (In­dictable Pro­ceed­ings) Act 2011 (AJI­PA) – mat­ters such as these had been sched­uled, “Be­fore a Mas­ter for suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ings.”

Roberts, 34, who was last at­tached to the Jus­tice Pro­tec­tion Pro­gramme which is an arm of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, was charged with two counts of mur­der and one count of shoot­ing with in­tent to do griev­ous bod­i­ly harm.

The in­struc­tion to charge Roberts was is­sued by the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Roger Gas­pard on Christ­mas Day.

Roberts, who lives at Emon Road, Va­len­cia – was ar­rest­ed four days af­ter the in­ci­dent which left Sime­on, 33; and his sis­ter Sini­aya, 35, dead; while Sime­on’s wife Ker­rey-Ann Munroe and fam­i­ly friend Nathan Pierre, were left nurs­ing in­juries at hos­pi­tal.

Roberts was charged by ASP Daniel Her­nan­dez of the North East­ern Di­vi­sion.