{"id":8879,"date":"2017-08-11T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=8879"},"modified":"2017-08-11T16:33:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:33:45","slug":"oxford-university-employee-court-us-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/08\/11\/oxford-university-employee-court-us-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford University employee in court over US murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">An Oxford University employee has appeared in a US court accused of murdering a 26-year-old man in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Somerville College&#8217;s Andrew Warren and US professor Wyndham Lathem, 42, are accused of fatally stabbing Trenton Cornell-Duranleau in Mr Lathem&#8217;s flat.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8801\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8801\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trenton-cornell-duranleau.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8801\" src=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trenton-cornell-duranleau.jpg\" alt=\"Trenton Cornell Duranleau\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trenton-cornell-duranleau.jpg 624w, https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/trenton-cornell-duranleau-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hairstylist Trenton Cornell-Duranleau was originally from Michigan, but was living in Chicago at the time of his death.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The killing on 27 July led to a US-wide eight-day manhunt for the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>In San Francisco&#8217;s Hall of Justice, Mr Warren, 56, declined to fight his extradition to Chicago for questioning and was remanded in custody.<\/p>\n<p>Neither of the suspects has been formally charged.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton appeared in baggy, orange prison-issued sweatshirt and jogging bottoms. He was filmed and photographed by the press in court.<\/p>\n<p>Listening to the judge&#8217;s questions assisted by a hearing aid, Mr Warren agreed he would not oppose extradition and said he would accept a public lawyer as he could not afford his own.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Edward Torpoco said: &#8220;Based on the nature of the charge, the defendant is remanded and no bail is set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Filming was permitted by the judge as Mr Warren had already been subject to extensive publicity as the subject of a manhunt.<\/p>\n<p>After the hearing, his lawyer, Ariel Boyce-Smith, said: &#8220;Mr Warren is agreeable to being transported to Chicago, he wants the process to be started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to remind everyone that he is presumed innocent and his agreement to go there to start the process is where we are now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Warren, who says online that he lives in Swindon, Wiltshire, has since been suspended from his job at Somerville College as senior treasury assistant.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Lathem was a microbiology professor at Northwestern University in Illinois and specialised in the bacteria that caused the bubonic plague. He has since been sacked.<\/p>\n<p>He appeared in court earlier this week and will be returned to Chicago for questioning.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Lathem&#8217;s lawyer said he plans to plead not guilty and he described the academic as a &#8220;gentle soul&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/08\/05\/oxford-university-murder-suspect-arrested-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earlier this month, Mr Warren handed himself in San Francisco, nearly 2,000 miles from Chicago, while Prof Lathem gave himself up in Oakland, also in California, on 4 August.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-40902325\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">An Oxford University employee has appeared in a US court accused of murdering a 26-year-old man in Chicago. 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