Murder trial shown video of compost bin allegedly used to dispose of cop’s body
HALIFAX — A Halifax murder trial was shown a video Thursday of a man rolling a compost bin that was allegedly used to dump an off-duty police officer’s body after she was strangled.
The Crown has alleged Christopher Garnier killed Truro police Const. Catherine Campbell at an apartment on McCully Street in the early hours of Sept. 11, 2015, and used a green bin to dispose of her body near Halifax’s Macdonald Bridge.
RCMP Sgt. Charla Keddy told the jury Thursday that she reviewed surveillance footage from a business near the apartment, where the jury has heard Garnier was staying with a friend.
She said the video from the parking lot of Soma Vein and Laser on Agricola Street shows a man leaving from the area of the backyard of the apartment shortly before 5 a.m.