Former councilman to be arraigned in wife's death
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A former Jamestown town council member is scheduled for arraignment in the British Virgin Islands today on a charge that he murdered his wife during a 1999 vacation. Shelley Tyre, 46, died on the last day of the couple's vacation to the British Virgin Island of Tortola. David Swain and his wife were scuba diving when, Swain said, the couple separated. She drowned. Officials in the British Virgin Islands originally ruled Tyre's death an accident. But in 2006, Swain, now 52, was found responsible for the death of his wife in a civil trial in Rhode Island. An extradition request was filed in May 2007, and after a hearing, officials in Tortola decided to charge Swain with murder earlier this year. He is now being held in prison on the island, awaiting his trial. 
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