The air-conditioning unit broke down yesterday morning. The judge said she hoped that when the trial resumes today, the air-conditioning unit would be fixed.

Lennox Swaby, 28, farmer and taxi driver of Hopeton district, Manchester, and Calvin Powell, 26, garbage-truck driver, of New Green, Manchester, have been on trial since October 5 for the double murder.

The Crown, represented by prosecutors Lisa Palmer Hamil-ton and Claudette Thompson, is alleging that the Lyns were strangled during a robbery at their house in Mandeville on December 9 or 10, 2006.