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Hamid Ayoub trial: Forensic identification officer testifies: [Video]

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The murder trial of an Ottawa man accused of stabbing his wife to death and attempting to kill their daughter continued Wednesday with a forensic identification officer taking the stand.

Ottawa police detective Erik Burnie took the jury through several crime scene photos that included some appearing to show a trail of blood leading from a townhouse on Baseline Road to a parking lot across the street and clothing allegedly thrown in the garbage by the accused.

Hamid Ayoub has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and attempted murder.

Court was shown photos of a pair of dark jeans that had been retrieved from a garbage bin outside the Ottawa hospital’s general campus along with pieces of a white undershirt that appeared to be covered in blood that had been retrieved from a garbage from inside a men’s washroom in the hospital.

Burnie also walked the jury through images from …

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