The case of a Richmond man accused in a double murder on Westwood Plateau nearly two years ago will proceed directly to trial.
Crown counsel will proceed with a direct indictment, meaning Maurio Salehi will go to trial without a preliminary hearing. The indictment was filed last month and trial dates will be scheduled on March 9 in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster.
Police were called to a home on Alpine Lane on July 16, 2015. Inside, they found the bodies of a 56-year-old Coquitlam woman and an Israeli man who had arrived in Canada just two days earlier.
It’s believed Salehi had a previous relationship with the deceased woman.
Less than a week later, Salehi was charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Other court news:
TRIAL IN SPRING
A Coquitlam man will stand trial in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster this spring on a number of charges in connection with a string of incidents in December 2014.
The spree started when a man allegedly attacked two young women who were walking on a trail near Heritage Mountain community hall shortly after midnight on Dec. 15, 2014. He reportedly pushed one person to the ground and stole her purse and keys.
According to Coquitlam RCMP, he went to the woman’s home the next morning brandishing a gun but her father fought him off. Soon after, police said a man matching the suspect’s description sexually assaulted a woman on Eagle Mountain before he stole her car.
He was arrested after a brief pursuit.
The trial for Vahidreza Bordbar will run from May 27 to June 9. He faces 20 criminal charges, including break and enter with intent, sexual assault with a weapon, assault causing bodily harm, robbery, theft of a motor vehicle and several firearms offences.
