Halifax man strangled off-duty cop, disposed of body with compost bin, jury told
HALIFAX — A Halifax man accused of killing an off-duty police officer “heard her last breaths” as he strangled her and later dumped her body using a green compost bin, a Crown attorney told a jury Tuesday.
“This case is about a man who loses control,” prosecutor Carla Ball said in her opening statement at the second-degree murder trial of Christopher Calvin Garnier.
“He’s alleged to have punched and strangled (Truro police Const. Catherine Campbell), and killed her. We allege he then put her lifeless body into a green compost bin and dumped her over a bank.”
Garnier, 29, is also charged with interfering with a dead body. He has pleaded not guilty to both charges.