Jailhouse Informant Testifies Against Accused

Jailhouse Informant Testifies Against Accused

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 at 14:51

A jailhouse informant testified today that a man accused of murdering an Onion Lake woman told him he thought he’d gotten rid of evidence that could incriminate him.

Darrel Lee Nieme told court today he was put in a Lloydminster jail cell with Alberta trucker Gordon Dwight Hurley.

Hurley had been arrested shortly before that for second-degree murder of Jarita Naistus.

Her body was found in a Lloydminster motel room on October of 2005.

Nieme said Hurley told him he didn’t know what police could have on him, because he wiped everything down.

In 2007, Hurley was convicted of Naistus’ murder, and sentenced to life in prison.

But that conviction was overturned, resulting in the current trial, underway in Court of Queen’s Bench in Battleford.