Undercover officer says Calgary murder suspect Robert Leeming led them to site where mother, daughter were buried

A Calgary man who killed his girlfriend and is on trial for the homicide of her younger daughter took undercover officers in the course of the evening to a distant, snow-covered space the place they had been buried.

Robert Leeming, who’s 36, has pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide within the dying of Jasmine Lovett and never responsible to second-degree homicide within the dying of 22-month-old Aliyah Sanderson.

The mom and toddler had been reported lacking in April of 2019 after they didn’t present up for a household dinner.

Courtroom heard this week that Leeming was befriended by two undercover officers, who instructed him they’d retrieved a bag of proof from a nosy neighbour.

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Leeming trial hears how accused assassin lead undercover officers to our bodies of Calgary mom and daughter

They supplied to assist him along with his issues — together with eradicating the our bodies of Lovett and her daughter, who had been in a shallow grave beneath a pile of mulch and branches in a day-use space west of Calgary.

One of many officers testified that Leeming knew precisely the place the our bodies had been.

The officer mentioned they went to the realm within the early morning of Could 6, 2019, and walked a brief distance on foot.

“I mentioned, ‘OK, the place to?’ And (Leeming) goes, ‘You’re it.’ And he factors down. And beneath and towards my left foot had been branches and a pile,” mentioned the officer.

“(Leeming) goes and he grabs a department and lifts it up as if to show what’s beneath all these branches. As he does that, I see a small little bit of blue that I imagine to be the shifting blankets.”

Investigators beforehand testified that the mom and little one had been doused in gasoline and wrapped in blue blankets earlier than they had been lined in filth, mulch and branches.

The trial additionally heard that Lovett had cranium fractures and was shot within the head. Aliyah died of blunt pressure head trauma.

The officer mentioned Leeming boasted about steps he had taken to hinder a doable police investigation — together with hiding wads of uncooked bacon round his home to throw off cadaver canines and filling the again of his automotive with mulch.

“Effectively, mulch is dying, proper? So it smells like dying,” Leeming instructed the officers in a tape recording performed in courtroom.

“You cleaned that automotive up good?” requested the undercover officer.

“Oh, yeah,” he replied.

The officer mentioned Leeming additionally expressed reduction that his 2014 Mercedes seized by police was an older mannequin.

“It’s humorous ’trigger they had been telling me the Mercedes, they beautiful a lot can hook as much as the pc within the automotive and know precisely the place I’ve been,” Leeming mentioned with fun.

“It’s too previous a automotive. If it was an ’18, then I’d be in jail.”

The prosecution was anticipated to wrap up its case Friday.