Grace Robotti, 65, charged with second degree murder appeared by video today with crown and defense having words on an application for the two accused not to be allowed communication prior to trial.

The Criminal Code section 516 order application will be heard next Monday most likely in Supreme Court.

516. (2) A justice who remands an accused to custody may order that the accused abstain from communicating, directly or indirectly, with any victim, witness or other person identified in the order…

The accused’s brother, Pier (Peter) Robotti, 61, charged with being an accessory after the fact and performing an indignity to a dead human body. RCMP found the body of Roxanne Louie in the Naramata-Chute Lake area January 12th.

The mother of a three-year-old boy had been reported missing after she didn’t show up at the Penticton Airport for a January 5th flight to Vancouver. Grace Robotti is the grandmother of Louie’s ex-partner and great-grandmother of the young boy. Rally for Roxanne held, once again, outside the Law Courts building.