Dr Fortune Gomo, a 39-year-old academic, was found fatally injured on South Street in Dundee in July 2025. She was treated by paramedics at the scene but did not recover.

Kyler Rattray has denied murdering Gomo. Prosecutors allege that he repeatedly struck her with a knife and that the attack was aggravated by prejudice relating to race, colour, nationality or ethnicity. He also faces a separate charge of possessing a knife illegally in a public place.

The trial is scheduled to begin at the High Court in Dundee on 5 January 2028 and is expected to last eight days.

Gomo was originally from Mutare in eastern Zimbabwe, graduated with a PhD from the University of Dundee and had recently started working for Scottish Water.