A bloodstain pattern expert testifying at the second-degree murder trial of Dennis Oland at the Saint John Law Courts about examining a brown jacket, which contained visible but faint staining – including some he described as being diluted.
The Crown has stated that four areas of blood were found on a brown jacket seized from Dennis Oland’s home on July 14, 2011 – a week after the body of Richard Oland was found in his office in uptown Saint John – and the DNA profile matched that of Richard Oland.
Sergeant Brian Wentzell of the RCMP arrived in Saint John on July 11, four days after the body was found, to help the Saint John police with bloodstain pattern analysis at the scene. He went back to his office in Nova Scotia the next day.
Wentzell says the jacket was sent to him to see if he could locate what stains were on the jacket and figure out how the stains got there. He says after examining the jacket he sent an email to have it sent off for sampling and put it in the freezer. He dealt with the jacket twice – once on December 6, 2011 and again on October 30, 2012 for further examination – he says he examined it that same day and it was placed back in freezer to be forwarded to another lab.
A photo of a blue and white checkered shirt seized from the master bedroom of Dennis Oland’s home also being shown on the courtroom monitors and according to Wentzell, no blood was confirmed and no human DNA found on the shirt.
The jury also being shown images of Richard Oland’s clothing reportedly seized from him at the time of the autopsy. A striped shirt was soaked with blood. In the back of the sweater, Wentzell says biological material was found in several transfer and saturation stains.
The trial has been adjourned until Monday morning at 9:30. It’s expected that Wentzell will be back on the stand.
This was day 19 of the trial. 65 days have been set aside.
CHSJ reporter Laura Lyall is covering the trial and is live-tweeting the proceedings. You can follow along by going to the CHSJ News or the Wave News Twitter pages.
