Calgary police officer describes finding bodies of mother and daughter in 2019
Posted Oct 13, 2021 1:52 pm.
Last Updated Oct 13, 2021 1:53 pm.
CALGARY – A Calgary police officer says he smelled a strong odour of gasoline or solvent before he and a colleague found the bodies of a mother and daughter in a shallow grave southwest of the city two years ago.
Const. Malcolm May was testifying at the second-degree murder trial of Robert Leeming in the death of 22-month-old Aliyah Sanderson.
Leeming pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in the death of Jasmine Lovett, the girl’s mother, but not guilty in the girl’s death.
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Lovett and her daughter went missing in April 2019 and weeks later Leeming told undercover officers the location of their bodies.
May testified the bodies were wrapped in blankets and had blue plastic bags wrapped around their heads.
He says there were bruises and blood on Lovett’s face.
