Murder trial begins two decades after woman's death in Roxboro

A jury has finally begun hearing evidence in a trial involving the murder of Juthlande Pierre, a 42-year-old woman who was killed more than two decades ago in the West Island. 
Dieuseul Jean, 56, is alleged to have killed Pierre, his girlfriend, on Dec. 25, 1995, and is charged with second-degree murder. As prosecutor Jacques Dagenais explained in his opening statement to the jury at the Montreal courthouse on Tuesday, it took 22 years to bring the accused to trial because he was living in