WINNIPEG — It’s been five months since staff at a U-Haul storage facility on McPhillips Street found the bodies of six babies hidden in a storage locker.
The owner of that locker, Andrea Giesbrecht has been behind bars since, but her lawyer says final autopsy results reveal there was no foul play and that the Crown is only delaying the court process, trying desperately to prove the babies were murdered.
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“I’m a little upset and frustrated,” said Greg Brodsky, “I now find they hired and brought in a independent pathologist from Ontario, he found no evidence of foul play.”
Court heard Monday, the Crown prosecutor hired a pathologist to conduct an autopsy on the babies, then hired another pathologist from Ontario to do another autopsy and also brought in an anthropologist. All three reported they could not determine if the babies were stillborn or who the parents are but confirm there was no foul play.
“When’s it going to come to an end? Are they going to keep on going until they find someone who’s going to say what they want him to say,” said Brodsky, outside the Manitoba Law Courts Building.
Staff at the U-Haul storage facility on McPhillips Street opened up a storage locker on October 20, 2014, after Giesbrecht fell behind on payments.
In the police search warrant, officers document that staff called 911 when they discovered the remains.
“He had found ‘squishy’ items inside garbage bags which were inside duffle bags…the items were ‘very smelly’ and he thought they might be a body,” read the search warrant.
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Giesbrecht rented the locker on March 7, 2014, staff had called her four days prior and Giesbrecht told them to not go into the locker.
“Andrea was adamant that her belongings in the storage locker not be sent to auction…the items belonged to her deceased father and she did not want to lose them,” stated the warrant.
The Crown would not comment on a case before the courts.
“I just don’t know, I don’t know why we’re taking so long,” said Brodsky.
Giesbrecht’s next court appearance is April 17. Her lawyer plans to seek bail for Giesbrecht but says he needs all the evidence before he can do that.
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