The second-degree murder trial of Dennis Oland hearing that the apparent blood stains found on the sink in the second-floor bathroom outside of Richard Oland’s investment firm in uptown Saint John were unrelated to his murder.
The results of testing finding that the DNA belonged to Galen McFadden, the son of Far End Corporation employee Robert McFadden and that those stains were old. Forensic identification officer Sergeant Mark Smith agreeing that the stained paper towel seized from that bathroom also contained Galen’s DNA.
Defence lawyer Gary Miller submitting to Smith that you can say there’s no evidence that anyone did any cleaning up in the second floor bathroom because the only staining had been placed there prior to the the murder to which Sergeant Smith agreed.
Smith has testified that he searched that bathroom on July 9, 2011 and that the officers on the scene had used the bathroom for the two days prior. Richard Oland’s body was discovered in his office on July 7.
Miller submitting photos of shoes that were seized from Dennis Oland’s home on July 14, 2011 as an exhibit. The court hearing there was no blood found on any of those shoes.
Miller also engaging Smith in a conversation about the submissions made to the RCMP lab in Halifax. The court hearing that hairs found in between Richard Oland’s fingers were among the items sent out out in the second submission while a brown jacket with a drycleaning tag on it and a blue/white checkered men’s shirt also with a drycleaning tag were among the items send out in the third submission.
The trial resumes on Thursday morning at 9:30 at the Saint John law courts.
Reporter Laura Lyall is covering the trial and is live-tweeting the proceedings. You can follow along by going to her Twitter page, the CHSJ News Twitter page or the Wave News Twitter page.
