There’s been another delay in the widely anticipated sentencing of Avie Howell and Kaniel Martin, who were convicted for the murders of three people.

High Court officials and the police will investigate allegations that relatives of one of the two men convicted of the murders of a honeymooning couple and a shopkeeper made threats after the guilty verdict, well-placed sources said.

Ten long hours. That was the time it took a 12-member jury to convict Avie Howell and Kaniel Martin for murdering British couple Benjamin and Dr Catherine Mullany and Jamaican shopkeeper Woneta Anderson.

A jury of eight men and four women is expected to be asked to determine whether Avie Howell and Kaniel Martin are guilty of killing British couple Benjamin and Dr Catherine Mullany three years ago on this very date.

“They brought no evidence of fingerprints to match Kaniel Martin. They brought no evidence of footprints to match Kaniel Martin. They brought no evidence of GSR (gunshot residue) to match Kaniel Martin.”

It took defence counsel representing triple murder accused Avie Howell one and a half hours to summarise 31 days of testimony, with legal advocate Ralph Francis

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Anthony Armstrong waxed lyrical and sometimes poetic, yesterday, employing the powers of persuasion

Jurors on the panel in the Avie Howell and Kaniel Martin murder trial basically got the day off yesterday as the prosecution

After 31 days of intense testimony, the prosecution and defence rested their cases in the High Court yesterday, bringing the court one step closer to allowing the jury to deliberate the fate of co-accused Avie Howell and Kaniel Martin in the triple murder trial against them.

Yet another telecommunications expert testified about exchange of phone calls and location of the users – accused murderers Avie Howell and Kaniel Martin – as the triple murder case against them continued in the High Court yesterday.