Terry Cole, Matthew Kavanagh and Stephanie Noftall charged with first-degree murder, committing indignity to human body
A jury is now in place and the trial of three people accused of killing a Spaniard’s Bay man in 2024 is set to begin in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court in St. John’s Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 13.
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The jurors were selected Tuesday morning from more than 100 people who were summoned.
Terry Cole, Matthew Kavanagh and Stephanie Noftall are each charged with first-degree murder and committing an indignity to a human body, in connection with the death of a 42-year-old man whose remains were found in a burning pickup in Bay Roberts on Sept. 30, 2024.
The RCMP has said the trio knew the man and had been involved in an altercation with him in a parking lot that morning, before travelling with him to Country Road, where the truck was located hours later.
Police arrested Cole, Kavanagh and Noftall at a home in Harbour Grace about a week later.
The RCMP has described the murder as targeted.
Originally expected to take six weeks, the trial is scheduled to last two months.
The Crown indicated at the accused’s arraignment last year its witness list includes 15 civilians, 20 to 25 police officers and several experts.
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