By Julie Chadwick

Presentation of dramatic evidence highlights day 8 of Addison trial in Nanaimo

Sep 16, 2016 | 8:42 PM

NANAIMO — More tears flowed in court today as the bullet-ridden shirts worn by mill shooting victims Michael Lunn and Fred McEachern were entered into evidence at the trial of Kevin Addison.

The 12-gauge sawed-off shotgun found at the scene of the shooting was also shown to the jury by Const. Stephen Miles, who served as the exhibit officer for the Nanaimo RCMP at the time. Shotgun casings recovered from the mill crime scene and the lead slug and pellets retrieved from the victims’ bodies were also shown to the court, among other items.

Textile damage assessment expert George Frasca also took the stand Friday to give his analysis on the jeans seized from Addison following his arrest.

In his opinion the fibres and yarns of the pocket suggested it had been cut and not torn, said Fresca, and the cut was fresh insofar that it did not appear the pants had been laundered or worn for very long after the alteration to the pocket was made.

“They were altered in a way that the Crown will say is consistent with allowing him to hide a shotgun while he entered the Western Forest Products property,” Crown prosecutor Nic Barber argued on the first day of the trial, in his opening address to the jurors.

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Both McEachern and Lunn were killed in an Apr. 30, 2014 shooting rampage at a Nanaimo mill that also injured coworkers Tony Sudar and Earl Kelly.

Addison is on trial for two counts of first degree murder and two counts of attempted murder. Clean-shaven, with short hair and glasses, he sat silently in the prisoner’s box at the centre of the courtroom during the trial and so far has displayed no emotions outwardly.

The Crown will call their final witnesses early next week in what has been an emotional journey for all involved.

“Coming to court every few months throughout the last two and a half years has not been easy either. It’s non-stop,” said Marcy Lunn, Michael Lunn’s daughter, on the second day of the trial. Marcy said she has visited the site where her father died and lay on the spot where he was gunned down.

“You get victimized again,” said Marlene Lunn, Michael Lunn’s wife, who said she has coped with the support of friends and family, “lots of Kleenex” and deep breaths. “We’re glad that it’s coming to a point so we know that there’s a beginning and now there will be an end, and then we can move on.”