Accused was impaired and sexually frustrated night of killing, jury hears

The man on trial for first-degree murder in the death of an Inuk woman who had just moved to Ottawa from Nunavut to attend college in 2022 was drinking, taking drugs, and had been trying to find an escort for "eight hours straight" before the killing, the Crown alleged in its opening remarks.

Accused was impaired and sexually frustrated night of killing, jury hears
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The man on trial for first-degree murder in the death of an Inuk woman who had just moved to Ottawa from Nunavut to attend college in 2022 was drinking, taking drugs, and had been trying to find an escort for "eight hours straight" before the killing, the Crown alleged in its opening remarks.