The jury has been told that Gladue suffered an 11-centimetre wound to her vagina that resulted in fatal blood loss. The injury happened on the second night she and Barton were sexually intimate at the Yellowhead Inn in west Edmonton.
Defence lawyer Dino Bottos asked the jurors to be opened minded and consider all the evidence in the case.(Jim Stokes) We chit chatted
Barton lived in Ontario in June 2011 and worked as a long-distance trucker for a moving company.
He testified that on the first night he stayed at the Yellowhead Inn, he went to the Lucky Lady lounge inside the hotel for a drink then outside for a cigarette. He said he spotted a man walking around picking up cigarette butts.
Posted: Jan 19, 2021 3:20 PM MT | Last Updated: January 19
In a court exhibit previously shown, Bradley Barton and Cindy Gladue are shown on surveillance camera leaving Barton s hotel room on the first of two nights they spent together. (Yellowhead Inn/Court exhibit)
A hotel maintenance worker says the man accused of killing Cindy Gladue seemed not really bothered that there was a dead body in the bathroom of his hotel room.
Daniel Chartrand testified Tuesday that he went to room 139 of the Yellowhead Inn on the morning of June 22, 2011, after hearing from a front-desk worker that a 911 call had been made asking for assistance to that room.
An Edmonton jury has been instructed to be "fair, open and attentive" while hearing evidence in the Bradley Barton manslaughter trial over the next seven weeks.