Overview
- Jaiden Hassan-Agard, 18, pleaded not guilty to nine charges at Southampton Crown Court on October 8.
- The counts include manslaughter of 25-year-old Tia Langdon along with false imprisonment, actual bodily harm, threatening with an offensive weapon, and making threats to kill.
- Further allegations relate to a second woman, named in court as Shannon McNeil, including kidnapping, separate false imprisonment, threats to kill, and threatening with an offensive weapon.
- Judge William Mousley KC provisionally listed the trial for April 7 with the venue yet to be confirmed between Southampton and Winchester Crown Court.
- A further case management hearing is set for January 23 as prosecutors cite a large volume of material and police continue to examine the circumstances of the August 28 fall.