By Q Radio News
SDLP MLA Pat Catney will go on trial next month accused of careless driving, a judge said today (mon).
The recently elected Lagan Valley MLA was not present at Lisburn Magistrates Court where District Judge Rosie Watters scheduled his contest for 23 October.
Mr Catney, with an address in the city, faces a single count of driving without due care and attention on Batchelor's Walk on 21 June last year.
In court today (mon) a prosecution lawyer and defence solicitor Billy McNulty said they could agree one police witness in relation to photographic evidence but that two further witnesses, a police officer and a civilian, would be called to testify for the prosecution.
Mr McNulty said he would be calling two witnesses to give evidence at the trial.
The former of the Kitchen Bar in Belfast city centre, Mr Catney was elected to Lisburn City Council in 2011 and re-elected in 2014, before being elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly in March 2017.
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