She added that the girl didn’t have a boyfriend, nor did she ever talk about boys. The friend testified that the girl’s mom always required her to be home before dark, and that she never used drugs or alcohol. that night.Īccording to a police officer who testified earlier in the trial, the 13-year-old’s body was found in the woods in the early hours of July 19.Ĭrown says its theory is that Ali strangled the teen to death while sexually assaulting her after grabbing her off a pathway in the park. The witness said she couldn’t remember if she saw the girl at school again that day.Īccording to the Crown, the victim was last seen alive departing a Burnaby Tim Hortons just before 8 p.m.
The jury was shown a video of the girl, which was captured by the witness during a fire drill, in which she says her friend was smiling. She said they interacted the morning of July 18 while at summer school. Through a translator, the woman, now 19, said she and the girl, whose identities are both protected by a publication ban, were close friends who often studied and hung out. "I have found those circumstances exist in relation to the Crown's next witness," he continued.īernard then told them they must not draw any adverse inference toward the witness or the accused. "The Criminal Code permits the trial judge to allow a witness to testify behind a screen in certain circumstances," Bernard said.
Justice Lance Bernard gave the 14-person jury a brief explanation of why the screen was there before the testimony began. The accused killer, Ibrahim Ali, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. With a big white screen shielding her view of the accused, a friend of the 13-year-old girl found dead in Burnaby’s Central Park in 2017 took the witness stand Thursday.
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