Testimony Continues at Murder Trial

Testimony Continues at Murder Trial

Thursday, January 20, 2011 at 13:13

 

 

Testimony in a Battleford murder trial yesterday suggests an Onion Lake woman was strangled with her own belt.

 

The court heard she bought the decorative belt just a couple of days before she was killed.

 

Gordon Dwight Hurley, a 46-year-old Alberta trucker, is on trial for the second-degree murder of Jarita Naistus.

 

The 20-year-old mother of two was found dead in a Lloydminster motel room on October 2nd, 2005.

 

Alaiyne Dillon, Naistus’ sister, said Naistus picked her up at a Lloydminster bus station on Friday, September 30th and they went shopping.

 

That’s when Naistus bought the decorative, studded belt.

 

Crown Prosecutor Scott Bartlett showed Dillon a belt in an evidence bag.

 

She confirmed it was the belt Naistus bought.

 

The trial began Monday and is expected last for about three weeks.