Judge Tells Ibrahim Ali Jury to Disregard Testimony of Crown Witness Who Died

Media wait outside B.C. Supreme Court, in Vancouver, B.C., on June 2, 2015. The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

The judge in the first-degree murder trial of Ibrahim Ali, who is accused of killing a Burnaby, B.C., teenager six years ago, has told the jury to completely disregard the testimony of a witness who died before the end of her cross-examination.

Dr. Tracy Pickett, a sexual assault expert called by the Crown, had not finished testifying when she was found dead on Sept. 28.