Overview
- The trial in Edmonton Court of King’s Bench continues with defendant Justin Bone on the stand denying memory of the downtown arrests or the attacks that killed two men.
- Prosecutors charge Bone with two counts of second-degree murder for the fatal beatings of Hung Trang and Ban Phuc Hoang while they were working in Edmonton’s Chinatown.
- Bone told the court he had been living rough and using methamphetamine heavily in the days before the incidents and that he went without sleep while trying to find shelter.
- He testified that RCMP officers brought him to Edmonton after a dispute with a family friend despite a prior release condition to stay away from the city, and said he had a paid sexual relationship with that man.
- Witness evidence and other exhibits are still being presented and jurors must decide whether Bone’s claimed amnesia and the circumstances of his arrival in the city alter responsibility for the killings.