Defence raises several questions about how police handled Sweeney murder investigation
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The defence for Robert Steven Wright spent much of Tuesday criticizing elements of the Sudbury police investigation into the murder of Renee Sweeney.
The defence for Robert Steven Wright spent much of Tuesday criticizing elements of the Sudbury police investigation into the murder of Renee Sweeney.
Wright is on trial for the second-degree murder in Sweeney’s stabbing death Jan. 27, 1998, while she was working as a clerk at Adults Only Video in a Paris Street strip mall.
Retired officer Rick Waugh testified he received training in forensic work from the RCMP and was in his third year working on Sudbury police’s forensics unit at the time of the murder.
Defence attorney Michael Lacy asked Waugh if he was trained on ways to preserve evidence at crime scenes, such as the importance of wearing a special suit to ensure fibres from clothes don’t get mixed in.
Waugh said he wore his uniform that day, as he normally did at crime scenes.
When told another officer wore a special suit that day, Waugh said he didn’t remember that, adding it wasn’t an option.
“I did not have that available to me on Jan. 27, 1998,” he said.
