The woman accused of stealing a car belonging to Loretta Saunders, whose body was found by a New Brunswick highway yesterday, has had her first Halifax court appearance delayed until Friday.
Victoria Henneberry, 28, and her co-accused Blake Leggette, 25, are both facing charges relating to the theft of Loretta Saunders's car. Saunders's boyfriend, Yalcin Surkultay, told CBC they were the Saint Mary's University student's roommates.
Henneberry, who appears on the court docket under the name Victoria Galbraith, was brought from the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility to the courthouse flanked by sheriffs on Thursday morning.
Friends and family of Saunders packed the courtroom, but the case was put over by one day.
Police found Saunders's body on the edge of a highway west of Salisbury, N.B. on Wednesday afternoon. Police are treating the 26-year-old woman's death as a homicide.
Victoria Henneberry was brought to provincial court in Halifax under sheriffs' escort. (Craig Paisley/CBC)
No one has been charged yet, but Halifax Const. Pierre Bourdages said they've identified suspects and charges are coming.
Saunders, 26, had been reported missing by her family. She was last seen in the Cowie Hill Road area in Halifax on the morning of Feb. 13.
Five days later, her car was located in Harrow, Ont.
Police brought Saunders's remains to the medical examiner's office in Saint John. Halifax police said they'll be there until the autopsy is completed.
Leggette is scheduled for a bail hearing on Friday, but lawyer Lyle Howe said that will likely be delayed because he expects his client will face new charges.
Cheryl Maloney, the president of the Nova Scotia Native Women's Association, says Saunders's slaying should trigger a national inquiry into the hundreds of murdered and missing aboriginal women in Canada.
Saunders, an Inuk woman from Newfoundland and Labrador, was doing her thesis at Halifax's Saint Mary's University on missing and murdered aboriginal women.
"We shouldn't be growing up in a country where we are at risk to be missing and murdered more than anyone else," said Maloney.
She said aboriginal Canadian women are five times more likely to be violently attacked than non-aboriginal women.
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