time within two years.

Last March the 31-year-old was sentenced to hang for the premeditated murder of Mr. Wilbur Doe.

But the Court of Appeal later quashed the conviction and sentence, and ordered a retrial.

It ruled Puisne Judge the Hon. Mr. Justice Ward had made legal errors and misdirected the jury.

The three-man court agreed with Watson's lawyer Mr. Timothy Marshall arguments that: Mr. Justice Ward was wrong to have dismissed an independent assessment of the admissibility of evidence as a "waste of time.'' He misdirected the jury by suggesting motive was irrelevant.

He erred again by telling the jury that the Police, as a matter of law, had not acted improperly in taking statements from Watson.

In its judgment the appeal panel said Watson had "suffered the ordeal of two trials and has been in custody for two years. The crime with which he is charged is, however, a serious one.'' The appeal court concluded, although unusual, there was a precedent for a third trial.

Watson's first trial was held in October, 1990, resulting in a hung jury.

Mr. Doe was found in a pool of blood on his kitchen floor on December 9, 1988.

A Police probe led to the arrest of Watson, and his friend Ricky Smith.

Smith admitted robbing Mr. Doe and was the principle Crown witness in Watson's trials.

Watson claims it was Smith who murdered Mr. Doe.