Steven Michael Bacon will go to trial after pleading not guilty to killing Makayla Chang. (File Photo/NanaimoNewsNOW)

By Spencer Sterritt

homicide

Steven Bacon pleads not guilty for accused murder of Nanaimo teen Makayla Chang

Oct 19, 2020 | 9:58 AM

NANAIMO — The man accused of killing a Nanaimo teenager will go to trial.

Bacon entered a not guilty plea at provincial court in Nanaimo on Monday, Oct. 19. It was his second appearance in a Nanaimo court, by video, after a first-degree murder charge was laid in September.

The plea comes more than three years after he was listed as a person of interest in the disappearance of Chang in March, 2017.

Police at the time said Bacon had a relationship with the teen. His house was searched by investigators for several days following her disappearance.

Her body was discovered in May, 2017.

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Bacon had left Nanaimo during the investigation, to be found in Ontario before Chang’s body was discovered. He was then charged with a variety of sexual offenses in Ontario in early 2020.

He remains in custody in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

His case has been adjourned until Dec. 1.

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