Halifax medical student accused of murder was deeply in debt, trial told
HALIFAX — Medical student William Sandeson was deeply in debt and under pressure from his parents about his spending in the weeks before he allegedly murdered another student during a drug deal, a Halifax jury heard Wednesday.
A Truro CIBC bank manager said Sandeson owed $73,000 on a $200,000 line of credit in July, 2015.
“It was to allow Mr. Sandeson to go to medical school,” Adam Hayden told Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
Gilles Marchand, an RCMP forensic analyst who pulled texts off the Dalhousie University student’s cellphone, testified that Sandeson’s father told him in July that his mother was worried about his spending.