Chad Reu Waters, 48, has pleaded not responsible to first diploma homicide within the demise of Ashley Pereira.
Waters entered the plea simply earlier than the beginning of jury choice in an Elgin County courtroom in St. Thomas, Ont. Tuesday morning.
Waters, of Jarvis, Ont., additionally pleaded not responsible to committing indignity to a physique by concealing it in a locked freezer.
Pereira, 33, who was born in Uganda however from Mississauga, was final seen in Mississauga on March 6, 2002.
Pereira's physique was later recognized after OPP used a helicopter to tug a freezer containing human stays from the bluffs in Port Burwell in Could 2019.
On the time, individuals who dwell within the space advised CTV Information that the freezer was present in an space folks dump trash down the embankment on common foundation.
A neighborhood resident had found the freezer and human stays inside.
Justice Kirk Munroe advised the court docket the Crown alleges the freezer was saved within the basement of Reu Waters’ South Coast Hobbies and Rides enterprise in Simcoe, Ont.
Because the 12-person jury was chosen Tuesday, a clear shaven Reu Waters sat within the prisoner’s field.
The jury will include eight males and 4 ladies, with two further and two alternate jurors.
The jury was dismissed till Thursday morning when the trial will formally start. The primary witness might be referred to as, and proof might be offered.
The trial is predicted to final between two and 4 weeks.
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