A 27-year-old man has ap­peared be­fore a Mas­ter of the High Court, charged with the mur­der of Can­dace Hon­ore, whose body was found on Ju­ly 17 stuffed in a suit­case in a pond in Va­len­cia.

A re­lease from the TTPS yes­ter­day stat­ed that Michael Moore, al­so called Tall Man and Ful­ly Ful­ly, a con­struc­tion labour­er, of San­gre Grande, was charged with the of­fence when he ap­peared be­fore Mas­ter Re­han­na Ho­sein, at the High Court North ‘B’ yes­ter­day.

Po­lice said the Suf­fi­cien­cy Hear­ing date has been set for Jan­u­ary 27, 2026.

Hon­ore, 22, of Man­zanil­la, was found dead af­ter be­ing re­port­ed miss­ing to the of­fi­cers of the Man­zanil­la Po­lice Sta­tion on Ju­ly 11. A male sus­pect, said to be an ex-boyfriend, was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the case by PC Hosten, of the Homi­cide In­tel­li­gence Unit, at the of­fice of an at­tor­ney in the San­gre Grande dis­trict, on Ju­ly 20. In­ves­ti­ga­tions were su­per­vised by act­ing ASP Vic­tor, W/In­sp Sylvester, Sgt Ra­moutar, Sgt Rad­haykissoon and PC Subi­ah, all of Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions (HBI), Re­gion Two.

Moore was charged with the of­fence by WPC La For­tune-Sali­na, fol­low­ing ad­vice from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions Roger Gas­pard on Wednes­day.