Hikoalok’s defence team of Michael Smith and Brook Laforest had initially been scheduled to open their case in early October.
Hikoalok’s defence team of Michael Smith and Brook Laforest had initially been scheduled to open their case in early October, following the close of the Crown’s evidence against Hikoalok in the 2018 killing of 59-year-old church librarian Elisabeth Salm.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
The jury was instructed to accept as proven fact that the DNA profile identified on Salm’s body is a positive match with the DNA profile of Hikoalok. Video surveillance showing Hikoalok on Laurier Avenue near the reading room on the day Salm was killed was also admitted as fact, as According to the Crown’s case, presented to the jury over the trial’s first three weeks by Assistant Crown attorneys Brian Holowka and Lisa Miles, Hikoalok had changed his clothes and into shorts and a T-shirt by the time he arrived at his old school.
Several school officials testified at trial and noted “nothing out of the ordinary” with Hikoalok or his demeanour when he showed up at the academy that day. He had formerly attended classes at the school until leaving the program following his 18th birthday in January 2018. Before adjourning the trial, London-Weinstein apologized to the jury for the inconvenience caused by the “longer break”.Article content
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