The two people on trial for the murder of Loretta Saunders have pleaded guilty.
Blake Leggette and Victoria Henneberry changed their plea to guilty in court in Halifax yesterday.
Leggettte, 26, pleaded guilty to first degree murder.
He is facing an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Henneberry, 29, pleaded guilty to second degree murder.
She is facing a life sentence with no chance of parole for at least 10 years.
According to Terry Sheppard, Leggette’s lawyer, Leggette plead guilty to save the Saunders family from going through the gruelling process of a public trial.
Saunders, a 26 year old Inuk woman, disappeared before Valentine’s Day in 2014.
Her body was discovered in the median of the Trans-Canada Highway west of Salisbury, New Brunswick a couple of weeks later.
Leggette and Henneberry will return to court April 28 to be sentenced.
This story courtesy of Blair Rhodes of CBC.