![]() "This sketch did not look like the person I saw." "I didn’t recognize the sketch, as far as it being someone I had seen," Hutchinson said. (Composite Image by Dan Bertrand/CTV News Northern Ontario source images supplied) Robert Steven Wright confirmed Monday he was the person the sketches were based upon. Paulette Taillefer's description formed the basis of the initial sketch released by police, left, and the couple from Laurentian University's descriptions form the basis for another police sketch, right. Lacy asked him if he had seen the composite sketches of the suspect police had released publicly. "At that point, I feel like I know it’s him," Hutchinson said. 3 - Fetterly - Hutchinson said one of the officers present exclaimed, "That’s the guy. "It looked like the person I saw," he said, but the photo was of someone who was clean-shaven. Hutchinson picked out a photo of John Fetterly, who was the first suspect in the murder who had just been arrested in connection with the case. 12, 1998, Hutchinson said, where police also asked him to look at 12 photographs and tell them if any of the men looked like the person he had seen going into the video store the morning of the murder. "Based on my memory, I felt I was being accurate, yes," Hutchinson said. When Lacy asked him if he had any reason to mislead the police, he said "no." "I believed I would be able to recognize him if I saw him again." ![]() "The way his hair came down kind of covered his face," Hutchinson said. ![]() Hutchinson said he was about 5-foot-8 or 5-foot-9, scruffy looking with dark hair and a goatee, wearing a hat and a beige or light green winter coat that came down below his waist. He was interviewed by police that day around 5 p.m., when he gave police a description of the person he saw. When he realized later what had happened, it occurred to him that the person he saw that morning might be involved. Hutchinson said at first, he and his boss were told by police to remain inside the store. "Do you recall giving any kind of statement to police officers at the scene?" asked defence attorney Michael Lacy. The time is significant because the jury heard earlier in the trial that Sweeney had made a final sale just before 11 a.m., something she called and told the AOV store manager on Lasalle Boulevard. He estimated that he arrived at the mall sometime between 10:55 a.m. that morning asking him to bring him something to eat. He said he got a call from his boss at 10:37 a.m. ![]() Hutchinson said he lived a few minutes away from the computer store, which was a couple of doors down from AOV. "Someone went into the Adults Only Video ahead of me," he said. He said he was walking up the sidewalk in front of the strip mall when the man opened the door to the store, forcing Hutchinson to move. While he said he only saw the man for "a split second," Hutchinson told police he got a good look at him. He testified he saw someone go inside the video store the morning Sweeney, a part-time clerk, was killed. Sudbury police cordoned off the parking lot of the Paris Street strip mall where Renee Sweeney was murdered inside the adult video store that she worked at. 27, 1998, Hutchinson worked at a computer store located in the same Paris Street strip mall as the Adults Only Video (AOV) store, where the fatal stabbing took place. The defence in Robert Steven Wright’s second-degree Sudbury murder trial called witness Raymond Hutchinson to the stand Wednesday morning.Īt the time of Renee Sweeney’s murder Jan.
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