Officer testifies finding body in brush at second-degree murder trial
HALIFAX — Family members of Catherine Campbell wept Monday as a jury was shown video of a body found in brush in an area near Halifax’s Macdonald Bridge, days after Christopher Garnier allegedly punched and strangled the off-duty police officer.
Halifax Regional Police Const. Adam Cole said he was searching Barrington Street as part of the investigation and spotted a box in a steep embankment off Valour Way early on Sept. 16, 2015.
“The hairs on the back of my neck started to stand,” Cole told the Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury at Garnier’s second-degree murder trial.
Cole said he then crawled down the embankment through thick brush.