Overview
- The case, sent to Bristol Crown Court Wednesday, now has a pre-trial hearing on June 19 and a trial set for October 12.
- Jamie Collins, 21, was found in the rear garden of his Cleve Road house in Filton in the early hours of Thursday after sustaining multiple stab wounds, according to preliminary post-mortem findings.
- Housemate Zack Coughlan, 23, was arrested Sunday and charged Tuesday after prosecutors authorised a murder count, and he remains in custody.
- Police forensic teams are still working at the Cleve Road property, and neighbourhood officers are carrying out high-visibility patrols as detectives pursue further enquiries.
- UWE Bristol said it is deeply shocked and is offering support to students and staff, and Collins’s family in Swansea paid tribute to a kind and gentle young man.