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Douglas Jesson could tell that the little girl in red and white rubber boots with crying peas was crying when she saw her being escorted by a man parked near the girl's home in northwestern Calgary.
While Jesson was describing the child in tears, Taliyah Marsman's family collapsed while sobbing in the courtroom where Edward Downey is being tried, accused of murdering the five-year-old girl years old and his mother, Sara Baillie, 34 years old.
The girl Jesson spotted on July 11, 2016 was Taliyah, according to the Crown.
Jesson testified that he saw the child through the window next to his home, just around the corner of the basement apartment where Baillie and Taliyah were living in a community home in Panorama Hills in the north. Where is.
Baillie's body was found in that apartment, stuffed into a laundry basket that had been pushed into the closet of Taliyah's room. Two of Downey's fingerprints were found on duct tape wrapping Baillie's head.
According to the prosecution's case, Taliyah was murdered because she witnessed the murder of her mother, or at least recognized the murderer who was inside their home.
Edward Downey, 48, is charged with first degree murder in the deaths of five-year-old Taliyah and his mother, Sara Baillie. (CBC)
Jesson also testified that, this morning of 2016, he had seen a black man walk with a little girl from a white Ford Fusion – which according to the prosecution was that of Baillie – until a sedan with tinted windows on the other side of the street.
The Crown's theory is that the man was Downey, the girl was Taliyah, and that the tinted window sedan belonged to Downey's girlfriend, a woman who can only be identified by "AB" because of the fact that she was a woman. a ban on publication.
Jesson stated that the man was wearing a beige jacket and a fedora and was carrying a suitcase when he placed the child on the back seat of the sedan, sat in the front seat and is far away.
Three days after Jesson saw the girl from her window, Taliyah's body was found in the east of the city.
Sara Baillie and Taliyah Marsman were killed in July 2016. (Facebook)
On Tuesday, AB testified that as of July 11, 2016, his relationship with Downey had deteriorated. She stated that he had hit her in the face and that she had refused to start working for him as a prostitute.
AB stated that his best friend, Baillie, "was scared for me".
Attorney Carla MacPhail, in her opening statement to the jury, suggested that Downey may have blamed Baillie AB for trying to leave him and refusing to work as an escort.
During the cross-examination of the defense attorney, Gavin Wolch, Jesson acknowledged that the girl he would have seen could have been up to 10 years old.
According to Downey's cell phone, it was proven that he was near Baillie's home on the morning of his badbadination, and then in the rural area where the remains of Taliyah were found, according to MacPhail.
Judge Beth Hughes of the Court of Queen's Bench presides over the trial.
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