Laffin likely to enter plea this afternoon in 2010 murder
Posted Mar 7, 2013 06:25:29 AM.
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Police were led to the body last week and this afternoon Steven Laffin will be in court in the case of murdered 29-year-old sex worker Nadine Taylor.
The crown says it’s likely he’ll be entering a plea at the 1 p.m. hearing at Nova Scotia Supreme Court. Sex worker advocate Rene Ross is concerned Laffin has pleaded out to a lesser charge.
“The past couple of years you think one thing is going to happen and something else happens,” says Ross. “It seems like the court system has become very unpredictable.”
Taylor went missing in July 2010 and despite police being unable to locate her body Laffin was charged in her murder the following October.
“This has been going on, and on, and on,” says Ross. “We want justice for Nadine, we want closure for her wonderful family and her friends.”
Laffin will also set a date for sentencing in the August 2010 kidnapping and assault of another sex worker. In that case the woman escaped from the trunk of a moving car on the Old Sambro Road and was able to run to a nearby home and call 911. Laffin plead guilty to those charges in October.
