HALIFAX – A preliminary hearing will be held in July for two people charged with murder in the death of Loretta Saunders in Halifax.
Twenty-six-year-old Blake Leggette and his 28-year-old girlfriend Victoria Henneberry are charged with first-degree murder.
They did not appear in provincial court in Halifax Tuesday when four days were set aside for the preliminary hearing, starting July 21.
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Saunders disappeared from Halifax on Feb. 13.
Her body was found nearly two weeks later off the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick.
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Police allege the 26-year-old woman was killed the day she was last seen at an apartment she once shared with the two accused.
Saunders, an Inuit woman from Labrador, was a student at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax where her studies focused on missing and murdered aboriginal women.
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