Police officer testifies about marijuana, ‘very unpleasant smell’ from bag at Sandeson’s murder trial – Halifax | 24CA News
William Sandeson’s first-degree homicide retrial heard from a Halifax Regional Police officer on Wednesday who searched a farm in Lower Truro, N.S., in addition to his brother’s Halifax house and a automobile linked to Sandeson in 2015.
Sandeson, now 30, stands accused within the demise of fellow Dalhousie University pupil Taylor Samson, 22, who went lacking in August 2015.
He is accused of fatally taking pictures Samson throughout a drug deal and later disposing of his physique.
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Det. Const. Illya Neilsen testified that on Aug. 21, 2015, he attended Adam Sandeson’s Chestnut Street house to execute a managed medicine and substances search warrant. The trial beforehand heard on Tuesday that William Sandeson left what was suspected to be marijuana in his brother’s basement simply earlier than the homicide investigation.
On Wednesday, Neilsen described photographing and seizing a inexperienced cannabis-like substance from a Kitchen Aid field and lots of vacuum-sealed luggage from the unit.
When the Crown requested Neilsen to explain proof in entrance of the jury, he described the contents to be 20 kilos of hashish.
Farm search
Neilsen then testified a few search at a farm on Aug. 28 and 29, 2015.
He mentioned he seized gadgets inside and round an outdated refrigeration truck on the property. There had been a number of rubbish luggage and a disinfectant spray can.
He additionally discovered mail within the space that was from a financial institution and addressed to William Sandeson.
In the truck, he mentioned there was a blue Adidas health club bag. While reviewing photographs with the Crown, he instructed the trial there was a black duffel bag inside it containing orange towels.
Neilsen mentioned it had a “strong smell of, like, rotting meat, a very unpleasant smell.”
A bathe curtain and rings had been additionally seized. The trial has already heard that comparable gadgets had been lacking from William Sandeson’s house washroom.
Vehicle in Sandeson’s title examined for blood
Neilsen then described looking out a black Mazda Protege5 with a allow in William Sandeson’s title. He mentioned officers found fingerprints on the automobile, however didn’t say to whom they belonged.
He instructed the jury he used a chemical referred to as Bluestar that may illuminate if it detected the presence of blood, amongst different substances.
Parts of the trunk, such because the latch, lit up in that blue color.
Asked by the Crown if the Bluestar outcomes piqued his curiosity, Neilsen mentioned “absolutely.”
“Bluestar is a search tool, we use it to search for blood, so when we get a positive result, that would tell us that this is something we want to pay further attention to,” he instructed the trial.
Each space was swabbed and examined utilizing a Hemostick, he mentioned. All however one space “came back with a very weak positive result,” apart from one which was “a very strong hit,” he mentioned.
Further testing with an OBTI check yielded a constructive end result.
Samson’s physique has by no means been discovered.
A verdict from a trial in 2017 was overturned on attraction and this second trial was ordered in 2020.
The retrial continues Thursday.
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