The pros­e­cu­tion's case against a man ac­cused of mur­der­ing Michelle Coudray-Greaves, the daugh­ter of Gen­der Min­is­ter Mar­lene Coudray, has hit a snag be­cause a med­ical ex­pert has re­fused to hand over his foren­sic re­port be­cause he has not been paid.As a re­sult, the tri­al against mur­der ac­cused Ivan Tay­lor could not be­gin at the Mon­tego Bay Res­i­dent Mag­is­trates Court.

In a sto­ry car­ried by the Ja­maican Glean­er last week, re­porter Christo­pher Thomas re­port­ed that the high-pro­file case was called at the Mon­tego Bay court last Tues­day. How­ev­er, clerk of the court Na­tal­ie Mal­colm told pre­sid­ing mag­is­trate Car­olyn Tai the or­tho­don­tist who analysed Coudray-Greaves' den­tal records had re­fused to hand over the foren­sic re­port be­cause he had not been paid.

Thomas said Tai asked whether the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) had con­tact­ed the or­tho­don­tist to get the foren­sic re­port, but Mal­com said no re­sponse had been forth­com­ing. She said the or­tho­don­tist was not in the coun­try and had not been for some time, the Glean­er re­port­ed. The court had re­quest­ed the records on Feb­ru­ary 12.

Thomas al­so re­port­ed that "the case was al­so ham­pered by the ab­sence of Tay­lor's lawyer, Sta­cyann Young. Fel­low at­tor­ney-at-law Lav­ern Wal­ters stood in on Young's be­half but Tay­lor said he came to court twice but did not see his lawyer."Tay­lor, who worked as an on-call dri­ver for Coudray-Greaves and is be­lieved to be one of the last peo­ple who saw her on June 1, 2012, has been charged with her mur­der. Coudray-Greaves was dis­cov­ered dead on June 11, ten days af­ter she went miss­ing.