Former Bundaberg surgeon Jayant Patel will stand trial for grievous bodily harm of patient Ian Vowels later this year FORMER Bundaberg surgeon Jayant Patel will stand trial for the grievous bodily harm of patient Ian Rodney Vowels in September. Crown prosecutor Todd Fuller SC told the Brisbane Supreme Court this morning that the Director of Public Prosecutions also intended to commit outstanding fraud charges against Patel to the District Court but did not give a date. The matter was heard briefly before Justice Glenn Martin. It was alleged Patel caused grievous bodily harm to Mr Vowels during colon surgery. Mr Fuller asked the court to consider dates for the trial to be listed in August or September this year and suggested a time-frame of three weeks. Barrister Ken Fleming QC, for Patel, indicated a number of matters would need to be resolved before the trial started and said Patel would seek to poll a prospective jury panel. He said the defence team was yet to receive particulars from the Crown in relation to how it would seek to run its case. Justice Martin proposed the trial be listed in the week commencing September 23 before Justice Jean Dalton. He said the trial would be listed for 10 to 15 days. Justice Martin indicated a pre-trial hearing could take place in August or early September. The Crown did not indicate whether manslaughter charges against Patel for the alleged unlawful killing of patients Garry Kemps, 77, and James Phillips, 46, would continue. At last hearing, the DPP had not yet responded to a submission from Patel requesting the manslaughter charges be withdrawn. Patel applied to have the charges dismissed after a jury earlier this year found him not guilty of unlawfully killing patient Mervyn John Morris, 75, in 2003.