'Difficult to look at': Jury views crime-scene photos at Burnaby murder trial

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Cpl. Dominic Toa, a member of the Lower Mainland Integrated Forensic Identification Team, took more than 300 photos of the place in Central Park where a 13-year-old girl was found dead on July 19, 2017.

Jurors at a Burnaby murder trial were faced with a series of pictures of the half-naked body of a 13-year-old girl found dead in a Burnaby park six years ago.

The photo, taken while it was still “pitch” dark, according to Toa, showed the victim on her back, her arms extended out, palms up, with her left arm bent at the elbow about 90 degrees. What “stood out” to Toa, he said, was that it appeared only the right half of the victim’s underwear had been pulled on properly.

There was also an unknown substance in the victim’s hair and one of her ears, but a forensic light exam at the scene didn’t indicate the presence of bodily fluids, such has semen or saliva, according to Toa.

 

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