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Medical examiner describes deaths of Jasmine Lovett, Aliyah Sanderson at Calgary murder trial

WATCH: Some tough testimony Friday at the trial of accused murderer Robert Leeming. Leeming faces second-degree murder charges in the 2019 double homicide of a mother and daughter. As Jill Croteau reports, the medical examiner was called as an expert witness – Oct 15, 2021

A forensic pathologist has told a murder trial that a Calgary woman and her young daughter suffered blunt force trauma to their heads.

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Jasmine Lovett and 22-month-old Aliyah Sanderson were reported missing in April 2019.

The next month, their bodies were found buried in a day use area in Kananaskis Country, west of Calgary.

Robert Leeming has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Lovett but not guilty to second-degree murder in the child’s death.

Deputy medical examiner Dr. Akmal Coetzee-Khan described his findings through a series of autopsy photos.

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He says Lovett appeared to have been moved after her death, judging from pooling of blood in her body.

She also had a black eye and bruising on her face.

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