A disagreement on Thursday between the Crown and the legal team for Leoda Bradshaw over her alleged involvement in the 2023 abduction and murder of parliamentarian Phillip Paulwell’s 10-month-old daughter, Serayah, and the child’s mother, 27-year-old Toshyna Patterson, saw Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Claudette Thompson declaring, “We are going to trial.”

Bradshaw, who has been in custody since October 2023, was expected to have a plea and case management hearing later this month but ended up in the Supreme Court for a hearing before Chief Justice Bryan Sykes after the defence asked for the matter to be brought forward.

Thompson explained that while her office had indicted Bradshaw for capital murder, the defence team for the accused woman was minded to plead guilty to non-capital murder and had served notice on the prosecution of their intention to seek a Newton Hearing.