Jolyn Bryan, Star Writer

Attorney-at-law Horace Gray has collected witness statements for review in anticipation of his client, Damion Ewin's April 22 appearance before the Morant Bay Resident Magistrate's Court.

Ewin, a bus conductor of a Newlands address in St Thomas who is accused of killing a 14-year-old schoolgirl, Kayalicia Simpson, appeared in the court to answer charges of murder and three counts of sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16 on Friday.

Ewin, 29, was charged two week ago with the murder of the 14-year-old Donald Quarrie High School student whose body was found at her home with chop wounds on the morning of February 3.

An autopsy revealed that the teenager was five months pregnant. Ewin, who is the boyfriend of Simpson's aunt, is said to have had sexual contact with the child on three separate occasions.