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The brother of a man accused of fatally shooting a provincial police officer more than two years ago testified Monday that he found the two accused killers inside a trailer on his property on the afternoon of the alleged murder.

Richard McKenzie told the jury trial in Cayuga, Ont., that his trailer was locked when he arrived home that day and after getting inside, he found his younger brother, Randall McKenzie, there with Brandi Stewart-Sperry.

Randall McKenzie and Stewart-Sperry were each charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ontario Provincial Police Const. Grzegorz Pierzchala, and both have pleaded not guilty.

The 28-year-old officer was shot on Dec. 27, 2022, while responding to a vehicle in a ditch west of Hagersville, Ont., near Brantford.

The elder McKenzie told the court Monday that he found his brother pacing back and forth inside the trailer, while Stewart-Sperry kept apologizing.

His brother then …

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