Text messages written the day before and the day of the murders were entered as exhibits at trial. He said that would also explain why Bailey's blood was found at the crime scene in three different locations, suggesting someone who was at the house after the shootings could have gotten a cut from the broken window and left DNA behind. 'It is possible someone could have come upon that scene and observed those injuries,' he said. Whitling offered an alternate explanation for how the accused could have known about specific details from the crime scene. The witnesses who heard the confessions admitted Bailey was calm and unemotional when he recounted the shootings. Even today, they express great doubt about the truth of these statements.' 'The people who actually heard and saw these confessions testified they didn't believe them.

'These confessions were simply not believable,' Whitling said. The defence suggested Bailey was lying or boasting when he confessed to his friends. 'These confessions were simply not believable'

'He had specific knowledge of the murders that would only be known by a person who was there at the time of the murders,' Shaw argued. The bodies of Roxanne Berube and Daniel Miller were found just inside the front door, while the body of Jazmine Lyon was located in the kitchen. Two days later he repeated essentially the same story to his brother and three friends.Īccording to testimony presented during the trial, Bailey told his friends he waited until dark to go to his aunt's house just outside Edson, armed with a 12-gauge pistol-grip shotgun. Bailey is the individual who killed these three people.'Ĭourt has been told Bailey confessed to the crimes to his friends just hours after Roxanne Berube, Daniel Miller and Jazmine Lyon were shot. 'His confessions corroborate he certainly had knowledge that only someone who had gone to the house would know.'īut defence lawyer Nate Whitling argued: 'It has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. 'Mickell Bailey had a plan and he set that plan into motion on Nov. In her closing arguments, Brandy Shaw urged Court of Queen's Bench Justice Sterling Sanderman to find the 21-year old guilty on three counts of first-degree murder.īailey is accused of shooting his cousin, his aunt and his aunt's partner. Mickell Bailey deliberately planned the cold-blooded murders of three people in November 2015, and knew details about the crime only the killer would know, a Crown prosecutor told court on Wednesday.

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