TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands (25 Apr 2009) — The murder trial of former PADI dive center owner David Swain has been delayed again. The long-awaited trial, which was originally scheduled to start in October 2008, was delayed until February, then delayed again until June, and with the latest delay is not expected to start until October. One of Swain's attorneys, Timothy Bradl, said the cause of the latest delay was another murder trial in Tortola. "There is another case that I've been told that has taken priority because the defendants have been in prison longer," Bradl explained. Swain, 53, is charged with murdering his 46-year-old wife, Shelly Tyre, while the couple was scuba diving at The Sound off Cooper Island on the last day of their holiday in Tortola in March 1999. Swain, who owned the PADI 5-Star Ocean State Scuba dive shop in Jamestown, Rhode Island, has been held in a Tortola prison without bail since February 2008 after BVI authorities reviewed the record of a 2006 Rhode Island civil case that found Swain guilty of murdering his wife. During the civil trial, experts who examined the evidence testified that Tyre's death must have resulted from murder. Swain was extradited to the British Virgin Islands in February 2008 after the United Kingdom made a diplomatic request for extradition. Swain, who maintains that he is innocent, says he does not know what happened to his wife after they separated underwater while scuba diving at The Sound off Cooper Island in Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands. | 
