A date will be set for the murder trial of former Napier City councillor Peter Beckett when he appears in a Canadian court tomorrow.
Beckett, 54, is accused of murdering his wife, Laura Letts-Beckett, who drowned in 2010.
He was arrested by Canadian police in August last year after a year-long investigation into his wife's death.
Tomorrow's appearance in Salmon Arm Provincial Court, north of Vancouver, is to set a date for his trial, which was expected to be up to a year away, a court spokesman said.
Mrs Letts-Beckett was originally thought to have drowned in a lake when she fell from a boat because she was not wearing a life jacket and could not swim.