WINNIPEG—Commissioners from the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women are encouraging people to support the family of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine while jurors decide whether the man accused of killing her is guilty. Jurors resumed deliberations Thursday morning at the trial of Raymond Cormier, who is accused of killing Tina and dumping her body in Winnipeg’s Red River. Tina’s body — wrapped in a duvet cover and weighed down with rocks — was found eight days after she was reported missing in August 2014. Her death reignited calls for the national inquiry, that is now holding cross-country hearings led by Buller. Court was told there were no witnesses to Tina’s death and no DNA linking her to the accused.

Source: thestar February 22, 2018 16:07 UTC