Testimony wraps up in Calgary triple-murder case; jury to deliberate next week
CALGARY — A judge offered sympathy and advice Thursday to jurors who have sat through a month of disturbing evidence about the gruesome deaths of a couple and their grandson.
Justice David Gates addressed the jury after testimony for the Crown wrapped up and lawyers for Douglas Garland elected to call no witnesses.
Garland, 57, is being tried on three charges of first-degree murder in the disappearance of Alvin and Kathy Liknes and five-year-old Nathan O’Brien.
Gates told jurors he understood they have endured “great, personal distress” in the last four weeks.