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Trial date set for Labrador City man facing murder charge

SaltWire Network | Posted: Dec. 8, 2020, 6:11 p.m. | Updated: Dec. 9, 2020, 8:36 a.m. | 1 Min Read
Vincent Ward is going to trial in March for the alleged murder of a 28-year-old Quebec man found dead in a home on Pine Avenue in Labrador City in April 2018
Vincent Ward is going to trial in March for the alleged murder of a 28-year-old Quebec man found dead in a home on Pine Avenue in Labrador City in April 2018

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LABRADOR CITY, N.L. — Trial dates have been set for a Labrador man charged with first-degree murder. Vincent Ward, 32, is scheduled to go on trial March 17- April 8, 2021 in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.

Ward is charged in relation to the April 2018 death of 28-year-old Vincent Belanger Dompierre of Montreal in Labrador City.  Ward has been in custody since that date.

He pleaded not guilty in early 2019 to the murder charge and a charge of using a firearm in connection with the incident.

Jury selection for the trial will take place in Happy Valley-Goose Bay March 16.

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