A decide has acquitted a Halifax man charged in a 2018 sexual assault after concluding the accused couldn’t be clearly recognized as one in all two rapists.
Provincial court docket Judge Jill Hartlen stated right now she accepted proof that Carrie Low was sexually assaulted by two males at a residence on the outskirts of Halifax on the evening of May 18, 2018.
However, Hartlen says the temporary flashbacks that Low offered to the court docket from that evening didn’t show that Brent Alexander Julien was amongst her attackers, including that there was no DNA proof implicating the accused.
The decide concluded {that a} third man seen in video footage from contained in the bar the place Low was socializing that evening wore clothes that extra carefully match the sufferer’s description of one in all her attackers.
Low sought and obtained a court docket order allowing the usage of her title, and she or he has alleged that police mishandled key proof in her case by not visiting the scene quickly after the sexual assault.
In 2021, Halifax police charged Alexander Thomas of East Preston, N.S., however earlier than his trial started Thomas was discovered lifeless in what police stated was a murder.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed May 23, 2023.
