A 20-year-old Tobago man was expected to appear in court charged with the murder of his 15-year-old girlfriend.

Kareem Phillips, of Plymouth, is expected to appear before a Scarborough Magistrate for the murder of Abiela Adams.

 Adams, a form three pupil of Signal Hill Secondary school, was found with her throat slit near a pile of rubble at Solenn Lane, Fidelis heights north in Courland in February.

 She was last seen by her parents three days earlier.

Adams was a member of the Trinidad and Tobago under 15 women’s national football team.

 She was also an avid cricketer.