03-06-2012, 05:49 PM
Court is now adjourned for the day.
London Free Press - UPDATE: 4:15 -- Laura Perry, a Woodstock resident whose son Jacob was a classmate of Tori's testified about the day the eight-year-old girl was abducted.
Perry was picking up her two sons at Oliver Stephen school was the first person seen in the infamous abduction video. She said she saw a young woman pass by wearing a white coat, walking with Tori. Perry said the woman with Tori looked like she may have been a teenager and "was walking fast, with purpose". She pointed out to the court exactly where she was standing on Fyfe Street when she the woman and Tori. Perry spoke to police and helped prepare a sketch of the woman she saw which was released to the public.
UPDATE: 3:21 -- The trial of Michael Rafferty was shown a number of videos which the prosecutors say puts Michael Rafferty's car in the area of Victoria Stafford's abduction.
The videos were presented by OPP Detective Constable Robin Brocanier. Cameras mounted on College Avenue Secondary School show a dark car with dark rims pulling into a the parking lot ofa a nursing home on Fyfe Avenue in Woodstock. The vehicle has been spotted in the area earlier.
Another video shows a person walking with Victoria Stafford towards the parking lot. The same vehicle is spotted at a gas station parking lot a short distance away, The gas station video had the wrong time stamp but the manager confirmed the actual time was close to the time of the abduction. The gas station video shows a driver with a white jacket but the face is not visible.
As Brocanier was reviewing the videos in May 2009 he found out that Terri-Lynn McClintic had confessed to murder and her boyfriend Michael Rafferty had been arrested.
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UPDATE: 2:31 -- Court has resumed with Det.-Const. Robin Brocanier still on the stand. He is going over the surveillance video and the movement of the suspect vehicle in the streets near Oliver Stephens Public School.
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UPDATE: 12:00 -- Det.-Const. Robin Brocanier took the court through evidence provided by two external video cameras at College Avenue Secondary School.
Moments before Tori's abduction, a dark coloured vehicle is seen slowing down on Fyfe Avenue near a nursing home.
Another camera picked up a more distant image of the same vehicle turning into the nursing home parking lot.
Another camera picked up a distant image of a child and a person in a white coat crossing Fyfe Avenue heading towards the parking lot.
In an opening statement Monday Crown Attorney Kevin Gowdey said Terri-Lynn McClintic lured Tori from her school and took her to the nursing home parking lot where Michael Rafferty was waiting in his car. Rafferty then drove down Norwich Avenue to Hwy. 401 and then to Guelph.
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UPDATE: 11:38 -- OPP Det.-Const. Robin Brocanier was the officer responsible for reviewing the video evidence in the case. He says he spent hundreds of hours in a broom-closet sized room reviewing the case.
He said College Avenue Secondary School near the scene of Tori's abduction had 32 video cameras and some provided vital information for the investigation including views of Fyfe Avenue and the nursing home across the street.
London Free Press - UPDATE: 4:15 -- Laura Perry, a Woodstock resident whose son Jacob was a classmate of Tori's testified about the day the eight-year-old girl was abducted.
Perry was picking up her two sons at Oliver Stephen school was the first person seen in the infamous abduction video. She said she saw a young woman pass by wearing a white coat, walking with Tori. Perry said the woman with Tori looked like she may have been a teenager and "was walking fast, with purpose". She pointed out to the court exactly where she was standing on Fyfe Street when she the woman and Tori. Perry spoke to police and helped prepare a sketch of the woman she saw which was released to the public.
UPDATE: 3:21 -- The trial of Michael Rafferty was shown a number of videos which the prosecutors say puts Michael Rafferty's car in the area of Victoria Stafford's abduction.
The videos were presented by OPP Detective Constable Robin Brocanier. Cameras mounted on College Avenue Secondary School show a dark car with dark rims pulling into a the parking lot ofa a nursing home on Fyfe Avenue in Woodstock. The vehicle has been spotted in the area earlier.
Another video shows a person walking with Victoria Stafford towards the parking lot. The same vehicle is spotted at a gas station parking lot a short distance away, The gas station video had the wrong time stamp but the manager confirmed the actual time was close to the time of the abduction. The gas station video shows a driver with a white jacket but the face is not visible.
As Brocanier was reviewing the videos in May 2009 he found out that Terri-Lynn McClintic had confessed to murder and her boyfriend Michael Rafferty had been arrested.
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UPDATE: 2:31 -- Court has resumed with Det.-Const. Robin Brocanier still on the stand. He is going over the surveillance video and the movement of the suspect vehicle in the streets near Oliver Stephens Public School.
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UPDATE: 12:00 -- Det.-Const. Robin Brocanier took the court through evidence provided by two external video cameras at College Avenue Secondary School.
Moments before Tori's abduction, a dark coloured vehicle is seen slowing down on Fyfe Avenue near a nursing home.
Another camera picked up a more distant image of the same vehicle turning into the nursing home parking lot.
Another camera picked up a distant image of a child and a person in a white coat crossing Fyfe Avenue heading towards the parking lot.
In an opening statement Monday Crown Attorney Kevin Gowdey said Terri-Lynn McClintic lured Tori from her school and took her to the nursing home parking lot where Michael Rafferty was waiting in his car. Rafferty then drove down Norwich Avenue to Hwy. 401 and then to Guelph.
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UPDATE: 11:38 -- OPP Det.-Const. Robin Brocanier was the officer responsible for reviewing the video evidence in the case. He says he spent hundreds of hours in a broom-closet sized room reviewing the case.
He said College Avenue Secondary School near the scene of Tori's abduction had 32 video cameras and some provided vital information for the investigation including views of Fyfe Avenue and the nursing home across the street.
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