The trial of Michael Laoe, the man charged with the 2005 murder of his wife, was postponed until September.

A September 17 trial date was set when Laoe, 40, appeared in the Home Circuit Court on Monday.

Laoe's wife Charmaine, an employee of the Constant Spring Inland Revenue Department in St Andrew, died six weeks after a deadly chemical attack in front of her workplace on June 10, 2005.

Laoe had reportedly hired a young man, identified later as Jerome Colstock, to douse his wife with battery acid.
It was reported that on June 10, Mrs Laoe was about to enter her place of employment when she was approached by a man carrying a bucket. After carrying out the attack, Colstock was chased and beaten to death by a group of persons along Constant Spring Road, St Andrew.

Investigators alleged that Laoe was at the scene of the attack, but jumped in a car and sped away when he saw the angry mob chasing the man he hired to carry out the attack. He was arrested some time late