RCMP in New Brunswick completes investigation in python deaths, now with Crown

FREDERICTON – Police say they have completed a probe into the case of two New Brunswick boys who were asphyxiated by a python.

The Mounties have handed the case to the Crown to determine whether charges should be laid.

Four-year-old Noah Barthe and his six-year-old brother Connor died last August in Campbellton after the python escaped its enclosure inside a friend’s apartment

RCMP Constable Jullie Rogers-Marsh says it was a lengthy investigation.

She says there is a chance the Crown could want the Mounties to do further investigation before they make their decision.

Rogers-Marsh says RCMP don’t recommend whether charges should be laid.

No one from the province’s Crown Prosecutors Office or the lawyer for the owner of the apartment could be reached for comment.

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