02 Feb2016
Barrett Murder Trial Expected To Resume, Today
The second degree murder trial of Thomas Ted Barrett is due to resume today after Crown and defence lawyers spent the day in a closed-session, yesterday.
They were arguing over the admissibility of a videotaped statement by a witness who is now dead.
In the statement, Sheryl Flynn says 40 year-old Barrett confessed to strangling Brett Elizabeth MacKinnon to death.
Flynn died less than a year later from a drug overdose.
MacKinnon’s remains were found in woods in Glace Bay in 2008, two years after she was reported missing.