Elderly WA man to be tried for murder plot AN elderly Albany businessman accused of trying to pay an undercover policeman to murder a woman he hated has been committed to stand trial in the West Australian Supreme Court. After allegedly uncovering the plot late last year, police charged Brian Vincent Attwell, 73, with the rare offence of attempting to procure the commission of murder. Attwell was committed for trial when he appeared in Perth's Stirling Gardens Magistrates Court on Wednesday. Prosecutors told the court they would apply for the trial to be held in Perth. But Attwell's lawyers have indicated they want it heard in Albany, on WA's southern coast. Attwell, who is wheelchair-bound and a prominent citizen in his hometown, had a bid for bail rejected in February but was granted bail earlier this month with strict conditions. His bail was renewed on Wednesday and the case was adjourned until May 6.