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Judge To Rule On Bail Application Of Man Accused Of Murdering Halifax Student

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 23 Oct, 2015 08:00 PM
    HALIFAX — A judge in Halifax says he'll issue a ruling today in the bail hearing for a 23-year-old man charged in the death of a Dalhousie University student.
     
    William Sandeson is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Taylor Samson.
     
     
    Sandeson, who was enrolled in medical school at Dalhousie, was charged Aug. 20, four days after Samson was reported missing in Halifax.
     
    A publication ban has been placed on evidence presented during the hearing.
     
    Linda Boutilier, Samson's mother, has said outside court that police still haven't found her son's body.
     
    Samson, a 22-year-old former resident of Amherst, N.S., studied physics at Dalhousie.

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