The criminal negligence trial in the deaths of two young New Brunswick brothers killed by an escaped python has yet to get underway today.
The doors to the Campbellton, N.B., courtroom still haven’t opened, two hours after the case was expected to resume for the day.
Reporters and spectators are lining a hallway near the courtroom, with some sitting on the floor, but no reason has been given for the delay.
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The Crown was expected to call its final witness today in the trial of Jean-Claude Savoie.
Four-year-old Noah and six-year-old Connor Barthe were killed by Savoie’s African rock python during a sleepover in his apartment on Aug. 5, 2013.
Yesterday, a pathologist who conducted the autopsies on the boys said they died of asphyxiation after the snake coiled itself around them and bit them repeatedly.
It’s believed the python escaped its enclosure by slithering through a ventilation duct and then fell into the living room where the boys were sleeping.
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