First-degree murder trial set to begin in Amber Kirwan case

By News Staff

Posted Jan 6, 2014 07:24:35 AM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

PICTOU, N.S. – The first-degree murder trial of a Nova Scotia man charged in the death of 19-year-old Amber Kirwan is set to begin today.

A full month has been set aside for the trial of Christopher Alexander Falconer in provincial Supreme Court in Pictou.

Kirwan disappeared after leaving a pool hall in New Glasgow, N.S., during the early morning hours of Oct. 9, 2011.

Her body was discovered in a wooded area in Pictou County on Nov. 6, 2011.

Falconer was in custody at the Dorchester Institution in New Brunswick.

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