The trial of George Proctor, the 86-year-old University of the West Indies consultant botanist who is charged with conspiracy to murder his wife, has been set for May 14.

The case was set for trial in the Home Circuit Court on Monday but had to be put off because the trial of a murder case which began last week was entering its second week.

Proctor is charged jointly with his driver, 41-year-old Glenmore Fillington, of Lyn Avenue in Christiana, Manchester.

The Crown is alleging that Proctor paid Fillington $90,000 to murder his 66-year-old wife.

Proctor is a respected botanist who has lived in Jamaica for more than 50 years. Considered an authority on this country's flora, he was also a consultant in the Science Department at the Institute of Jamaica.

The men are on bail in the sum of $500,000 each with sureties. Mr. Justice Horace Marsh extended their bail when they appeared in court on Monday