HALIFAX -- The lawyer for a man charged in the deaths of three people in a house fire in the Halifax area has been granted additional time to review a report on his client's fitness to stand trial.
Codey Reginald Hennigar is charged with three counts of second-degree murder after the remains of three people were found in a home in January.
Eighty-one-year-old Clifford William Ward, 54-year-old Mildred Ann Ward and 74-year-old Ida Raye Ward died.
The fire broke out on the afternoon of Jan. 7 in a rural, wooded area about 25 kilometres northeast of Halifax's airport.
A provincial court judge ordered a psychiatric assessment of Hennigar.
The case is scheduled to return to court March 27.
