RCMP Say Derek Saretzky, Suspect In Alberta Double Murder, Fit To Stand Trial

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 26 Nov, 2015 01:36 PM

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — RCMP say the man accused of killing a two-year-old southwestern Alberta girl and her father has been found fit to stand trial.

Derek Saretzky is charged with first-degree murder in the September deaths of Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette and her father Terry Blanchette.

RCMP say the Alberta Crown informed police of the ruling on Wednesday.

Saretzky was initially sent for a 30-day review of his mental health, but last month a judge was told that doctors needed more time for their analysis.

He was arrested in the Crowsnest Pass area after Blanchette's body was found in his Blairmore home.

Saretzky is scheduled to return to a Lethbridge court this morning.

Prev Next

MORE National ARTICLES

Some 34,000 Quebec Teachers Off The Job To Protest Lagging Contract Talks

MONTREAL — French-language public school teachers are off the job today in some parts of Quebec as they protest lagging contract talks with the provincial government.

Some 34,000 Quebec Teachers Off The Job To Protest Lagging Contract Talks

Judge Rules Against Hockey Icon Guy Lafleur In Civil Suit Targeting Crown, Cops

MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court justice has ruled against former Montreal Canadiens great Guy Lafleur in his $2.16-million civil suit that targeted police and the Crown following a 2008 arrest.

Judge Rules Against Hockey Icon Guy Lafleur In Civil Suit Targeting Crown, Cops

B.C. Lags In Protecting Sensitive Health Data: Privacy Commissioner

Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham says authorities are not legally obligated to report privacy breaches, which could involve sensitive personal information from HIV tests, to mammograms or routine blood results.

B.C. Lags In Protecting Sensitive Health Data: Privacy Commissioner

Canada Approves Refugee Claim Of Man Who Fled Somalia After Death Threat

The Immigration and Refugee Board told 32-year-old Yahya Samatar at a hearing in Winnipeg today that his claim was accepted.

Canada Approves Refugee Claim Of Man Who Fled Somalia After Death Threat

Retroactive change of law prompts OPP to drop probe of RCMP gun data destruction

The Ontario Provincial Police have dropped an investigation into the RCMP's destruction of gun registry data, saying the alleged offences no longer exist under a back-dated, retroactive Conservative law passed last spring.

Retroactive change of law prompts OPP to drop probe of RCMP gun data destruction

Families First: Minister Lisa Raitt Urges Airlines To Stop Separating Parents, Children

Canada's transport minister quietly wrote to the heads of every major airline in the country earlier this year to try and stamp out a practice where parents were being seated separately from their children on flights.