Crucial Crown evidence ruled out as Dellen Millard’s murder trial nears end
TORONTO — A police expert’s testimony suggesting that an aviation executive whose death was initially ruled a suicide could not have killed himself was dismissed Friday as biased and unreliable.
Det. Const. Grant Sutherland, a shooting reconstruction officer with Toronto police, told court last week that after forensic testing he believed it was unlikely Wayne Millard shot himself in the face on Nov. 29, 2012.
Dellen Millard, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of his 71-year-old father, smiled at the ruling while seated in the prisoner box.
Justice Maureen Forestell ruled Friday that Sutherland’s “opinion on the likelihood of Wayne Millard firing the gun” was inadmissible.