A magistrate yesterday ruled that there is sufficient evidence for Sophia resident Martin Blair to be committed to stand trial in the High Court for the murder of his sister’s boyfriend.
Blair, a 23-year-old mason, of Lot 578 Seventh Street, ‘D’ Field, Sophia, was committed to stand trial for the murder of Daniel Boutrin. At the conclusion of the preliminary inquiry into the charge against him at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court, Magistrate Rochelle Liverpool ruled that there was sufficient evidence to commit him to stand trial at the next practicable sitting of the criminal assizes for the offence of murder.
The charge against Blair is that on March 15, at ‘D’ Field, Sophia, he murdered Boutrin.
