Pre-trial hearing held in Loretta Saunders homicide case

HALIFAX – Lawyers began a pre-trial hearing today to determine the admissibility of evidence related to whether one of the two people charged in the death of Loretta Saunders will be granted a separate trial.

Blake Leggette and Victoria Henneberry are both charged with first-degree murder and their four-week jury trial is scheduled to start April 20 at the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.

“That first issue the that we’ll deal with was that item they’re trying to exclude from evidence,” said Crown attorney Christine Driscoll. “Because [they] are really the basis for the severance application. What’s in them may affect Henneberry’s case.”

The five-day hearing is being held under a publication ban.

“I want to be careful about saying anything, other than they’re bringing in an application to exclude certain items of evidence.”

Judge Josh Arnold agreed today to first hear witnesses and arguments on possible evidence.

Leggette and Henneberry were charged in the death of 26-year-old Saunders, who disappeared from her Halifax apartment last February.

Her body was found in a wooded area off the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick two weeks later.

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