HALIFAX – An additional day has been set aside for a preliminary inquiry in the case of a 33-year-old man accused of fatally beating a prominent activist in Halifax’s gay community.
Defence lawyer Don Murray says the four-day inquiry in the second-degree murder case of Andre Noel Denny is set to begin Feb. 19.
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Murray says more than 20 witnesses – all civilians and police officers – are expected to be called.
He says the Crown also withdrew a breach of probation charge today at a focus hearing in Halifax provincial court.
Denny was charged after 49-year-old Raymond Taavel was found dead outside a downtown bar after he tried to break up a fight between two men in April.
Hours before, Denny was released by the East Coast Forensic Hospital on an unsupervised one-hour pass, but he didn’t return.
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