FOUR men will face trial in crown court following the shotgun death of a teenager in a pub car park last year.
Peter Colwell, 18, from Clynnog Fawr died from a gunshot wound to the head in the car park of the Ship Inn in Llanbedrog in February last year.
The four defendants previously faced firearms charges, Mold Crown Court heard.
But the prosecution has reviewed the case and has decided to charge Benjamin George Fitzsimons and Ben Andrew Wilson with manslaughter.
Benjamin Fitzsimons, 22, of Nanhoron, Pwllheli, had already been charged with possessing a loaded shotgun in a public place.
Wilson, 28, of Ely Street, Ely, Cambridgeshire, had been charged with three counts of failing to comply with conditions of a firearm certificate and two charges of failing to comply with conditions on a shotgun certificate.
Co-defendants Harry Robert Butler, 22, of Llaniestyn, Pwllheli, and Michael David Fitzsimons, 24, of Nanhoron, Pwllheli, are charged with possessing a loaded shotgun in a public place.
The court heard that both men would apply for the charges against them to be dismissed.
Mr Justice Clive Lewis, who appeared last week via a live television link from Swansea Crown Court, fixed the legal arguments for 22 May.
The trial, which is expected to last three weeks, will start on 19 November.
He said that the trial would provisionally be at Mold although he said it could be transferred to Caernarfon.





