A Lance Cor­po­ral of the T&T De­fence Force ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court charged with the mur­der of Chez­er­ae Kid­ney-Ram­dass.

The po­lice ser­vice said Kevin Hamil­ton, 40, al­so called Frame of Up­per Belle Road, Bel­mont, Port-of-Spain, ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Whit­ney Franklin at South Court C charged with mur­der. He was not called up­on to plead and was re­mand­ed in cus­tody.

A suf­fi­cien­cy hear­ing is set for Sep­tem­ber 30.

The charge stemmed from a shoot­ing in­ci­dent at Or­chid Gar­dens, Pleas­antville, in which 29-year-old Kid­ney-Ram­dass was killed on Jan­u­ary 29.

Kid­ney-Ram­dass, who op­er­at­ed a small shop out of her apart­ment win­dow, heard the bell in­di­cat­ing a cus­tomer was present. When she went to check, she was shot dead.