Judge rules duo charged in death of Loretta Saunders to be tried together

HALIFAX – A Nova Scotia judge has ruled that two people charged in the death of Loretta Saunders will be tried together.

Chris Hansen, a spokeswoman for the province’s Public Prosecution Service, says Judge Josh Arnold of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court informed lawyers today that the first-degree murder trial of Blake Leggette and Victoria Henneberry will proceed Monday as planned.

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Henneberry’s lawyer had argued that the two accused should be tried separately.

Leggette’s lawyer supported the motion but the Crown opposed it.

Hansen says Arnold also ruled that some pre-trial evidence the defence wanted to exclude will be included in the trial.

That evidence was discussed in court during a pre-trial hearing but cannot be reported on due to a publication ban.

The 26-year-old Saunders was found dead in a wooded area off the Trans-Canada Highway in New Brunswick two weeks after she disappeared from her Halifax apartment in February 2014.