‘I can’t breathe’ were the last words an Indigenous inmate ever said after pleading for his life during a struggle with the jail’s tactical team - these details presented in court by Crown prosecutors in their closing arguments in the trial of the jail guard charged in the death.
Lawyers made their closing arguments Wednesday in the trial of corrections officer Robert Jeffrey Morden, who was charged in relation to the 2021 death of Headingley Correctional Centre inmate William Ahmo.