Sgt. Maj. Heather Lew, the lead investigator in the case of a 13-year-old girl found dead in Burnaby's Central Park in July 2017, testified at the Ibrahim Ali murder trial Wednesday.
Despite an extensive search, police investigators never found any videos of Ibrahim Ali, or the 13-year-old girl he is accused of killing, entering the Burnaby park where her body was found six years ago, according to testimony at Ali's murder trial this week.
Ali has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of the girl, whose body was found in the bush beside a Central Park trail on July 19, 2017, less than two hours after her family reported her missing at about 11 p.m. on July 18, 2017.Lew, a corporal at the time, was the lead investigator in the case, but Crown prosecutor Daniel Porte didn’t ask her any questions about the details of the investigation or how police zeroed in on Ali.
After Ali’s arrest on Sept. 7, 2018, Lew said she took a blood sample from Ali at the Burnaby RCMP cells on Sept. 9, 2018.The Crown's theory is that Ali and the girl were strangers to one another and that he attacked her on a trail in Central Park, dragged her into the forest and strangled her to death while sexually assaulting her.
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