THREE men accused of the murder of a Latvian migrant worker are to face trial next year.

Saimonas Lasas, 21, of Grove Street, Great Hale, Rusland Rudenko, 21, of Curlew Way, Sleaford, and Alvydas Siautilas, 20, of Newfield Road, Sleaford, all denied the murder of Ansis Abelnieks when they appeared before Lincoln Crown Court yesterday.

Mr Abelnieks, 34, was found critically injured at his home in Thorpe Road, Ewerby Thorpe, near Sleaford, on the evening of September 13, last year.

He died three weeks later in the Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham.

The trial is due to take place at Nottingham Crown Court in March next year.