Overview
- A plea and trial preparation hearing is scheduled for April 13 at Manchester Crown Court before Judge Nicholas Dean KC.
- Prosecutors set a July 20 trial date with an expected length of seven to eight days.
- James Morton, 33, is charged with murdering 45-year-old Gloria De Lazzari, who was found dead on January 19 at a flat on Kempston Gardens in Halliwell.
- Morton did not attend the crown court hearing as he was not required, and defence counsel Mohammed Nawaz KC did not apply for bail, so he remains remanded.
- Family tributes released by police described De Lazzari as a devoted daughter, and her mother has said she wants the truth about what happened.