In Calgary courts: Trial of man charged in death of his mother delayed a year​on April 11, 2025 at 6:05 pm

Between March 16 and 18, he found 286 searches or scrolls of subjects ranging from “where can you buy syringes” to the names of TikTok influencers Sarah Jade Bleau and Chase Hudson.

The trial, before a Calgary Court of King’s Bench jury, is in week two of a scheduled four.

The similarities between two killings of Calgary sex trade workers nearly 14 years apart are unlikely to be a coincidence, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Justice Colin Feasby said Crown prosecutors Hyatt Mograbee and Greg Piper can call evidence of the 2009 homicide of Laura Ferlan in a bid to prove Christopher Ward Dunlop is guilty of murder in a Feb. 16, 2023, fatal stabbing.

Dunlop, 50, is charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of sex-trade worker Judy Maerz, 58.

Defence lawyer Allan Fay had argued the evidence of Furlan’s homicide had sufficient differences so as to not be strikingly similar to the killing of Maerz.

Dunlop’s trial before Feasby without a jury is scheduled for June.

Murder suspect Michael Adenyi showed no signs of delusions, or hallucinations when taken into police custody, his arresting officer said Tuesday.

Const. Benjamin Stock was led through a series of video clips by Crown prosecutor Renato Di Lorenzo showing Adenyi being brought to the Westwinds Calgary police headquarters shortly after the March 18, 2022, killing of Vanessa Ladouceur.

The footage, taken with Stock’s body worn camera and surveillance cameras at the police station, show Adenyi entering the building and being escorted down a hall before being taken by elevator to the second floor.

Adenyi, wearing a hospital gown and with several fingers bandaged, showed no indication he was uncomfortable as he was led to a telephone room and left for 20 minutes and then taken to a police interview room.

The family of Elfrieda Osipow were also satisfied that Leung’s conduct two years ago didn’t warrant a significant punishment.

“We forgive you,” Osipow’s granddaughter, April Wrenn, said in court while reading victim impact statements on behalf of herself and her dad, Peter Osipow.

“We understand … that you didn’t intend for any of this to happen.”

Elfrieda Osipow, 91, suffered two fractures to her lower left leg, a fracture to her upper right arm and multiple rib fractures in the March 31, 2023, collision at Aero Drive and Aero Gate N.E.

“Elfrieda succumbed to her injuries and died in hospital four days later,” Koudmani told Bascom.

Reading from a statement of agreed facts, Koudmani said Leung, then 64, had stopped briefly at the intersection before turning his Lexus SUV left into the path of Peter Osipow’s oncoming Chevrolet Spark hatchback.

“Mr. Leung came to a stop prior to completing the left-hand turn onto Aero Gate,” Koudmani said.

“He stated in his traffic collision report that he had difficulty seeing because the sun was in his eyes.”

“It’s sad. Everybody I talked to said the same thing, our legal system, it doesn’t do anything to address the criminal. They get off so easy.”

Homer had faced four charges, two each of impaired driving causing death and two of dangerous driving causing the deaths of the two victims.

But Fagan told Dilts that Balogun and co-prosecutor Patrick Bigg had already conceded there wasn’t evidence to support the contention Homer was impaired by drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash, on Highway 7, just southwest of Okotoks.

According to a statement of agreed facts, Homer was westbound on the two-lane highway when at high speed she attempted to pass a car in her lane.

Christopher Burke, who was heading eastbound in a Honda Civic, could not avoid the head-on collision with Homer’s oncoming Cadillac Escalade.

An RCMP accident expert collected crash data from both vehicles, Balogun said.

“Prior to the collision (the Escalade) had been travelling upwards of 148 km/h, whereas (the Civic) was travelling 99 km/h,” the prosecutor told Dilts.

Coetzee-Khan testified the multiple wounds would have caused bleeding from several areas of Ladouceur’s body.

He said the 31-year-old was also stabbed in the left shoulder, a perforating wound that exited her back.

“There’s blood loss that’s occurring from multiple sites,” Coetzee-Khan said.

“The cause of death was determined to be multiple sharp force trauma injuries and the manner of death was determined to be homicide.”

The pathologist said the hand wounds weren’t surprising considering most of the injuries suffered by Ladouceur were to her head area.

“They might not be, but they could be considered defensive injuries, especially with injuries that are located towards the face. A reaction usually from a person having injuries towards their face would be to protect their face and they could have stab wounds that could injure the hand,” he said.

“That could be considered defensive injuries.”

Last week jurors viewed extensive CCTV footage tracking both Ladouceur and Adenyi in the moments leading up to the attack.

“The video shows Ladouceur leaving her residence at around 6:27 a.m. and heading eastbound on 10th Avenue S.E.

Minutes later, Adenyi is seen exiting an apartment building at 10th Avenue and 1st Street S.W., pushing a bicycle, wearing a light-coloured jacket and carrying a backpack.

The trial is scheduled to last four weeks.

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