Dellen Millard’s murder trial hears gruesome details from father’s autopsy
TORONTO — The trial of a twice-convicted murderer heard Wednesday from a forensic pathologist who described the gruesome details of the autopsy of the man’s father, whose death was initially ruled a suicide.
Dr. Jayantha Herath testified that Wayne Millard, 71, had his eyes closed when he was shot in the face at close range — the bullet entering his left eye at an angle and becoming lodged in the right side of his brain.
No one could survive that injury, Herath said. “He would die immediately within seconds.”
Millard’s son, 32-year-old Dellen Millard, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of his father on Nov. 29, 2012. It’s the third murder trial for the younger Millard, who is serving two consecutive life sentences for killing a former lover and a Hamilton man who went missing in May 2013.