Father of Oak Bay sisters found dead on Christmas Day appears in court

The Vancouver Island man charged with the deaths of his two young daughters, four-year-old Aubrey and six-year-old Chloe, appeared in court on Thursday in Victoria.

Wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt, 43-year-old Andrew Berry stood still and appeared emotionless in his very brief first court appearance.

His duty counsel asked for the case to be put over until Feb. 1 so Berry could retain his own lawyer.

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The judge implemented a “no-contact” with the girls’ mother Sarah Cotton.

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Police found their bodies in Berry’s Oak Bay apartment – where they’d been for an overnight visit – on Christmas Day after their mother reported the dad had failed to return them as scheduled.

Berry was found with self-inflicted wounds and was taken to hospital.

Court documents show the girls’ mother has been in a dispute with their father since their estrangement in 2013.

~With files from Amy Judd and Simon Little