‘You’re looking at it’: Undercover officer says suspect led them to burial site
Posted Oct 22, 2021 5:43 pm.
A Calgary man who killed his girlfriend and is on trial for the murder of her young daughter took undercover officers in the middle of the night to a remote, snow-covered area where they were buried.
Robert Leeming, who is 36, has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Jasmine Lovett and not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of 22-month-old Aliyah Sanderson.
The mother and toddler were reported missing in April of 2019 after they didn’t show up for a family dinner.
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Court heard this week that Leeming was befriended by two undercover officers, who told him they had retrieved a bag of evidence from a nosy neighbour.
They offered to help him with his problems, including removing the bodies of Lovett and her daughter, who were in a shallow grave under a pile of mulch and branches in a day-use area west of Calgary.
One of the officers testified that Leeming knew exactly where the bodies were.
