By Bre McAdam

Victim’s girlfriend testifies at Saskatoon murder trial

Mar 25, 2015 | 5:55 PM

The girlfriend of a man who was stabbed to death behind his Saskatoon apartment says she left her boyfriend at the mall the day he was killed.

Denise Keewatin testified as a defence witness Wednesday at the second-degree murder trial of Albert Eagle. The trial was put on hold when Keewatin failed to take a bus from Regina to Saskatoon on Tuesday. Police found her at a shelter where she was trying to obtain identification in order to take the bus.

Keewatin said she had been dating Kelly Brian Diehl for about a month when the 29-year-old was found dead in an alley in the City Park neighbourhood on Aug. 29, 2013. Diehl and his mother were drinking when she woke up at Diehl’s apartment around 9:30 that morning, she testified.

The couple walked to the Liquor Board Store, bought alcohol, and ended up at the Midtown Mall later that afternoon. Keewatin said she was upset with Diehl and left him at the mall because he kept talking to strangers. She went to the Northwoods Inn on Idylwyld Drive, where her mother was living.

Earlier in the trial, Keewatin’s sister Laurie testified that a white-handled knife she had seen at her mother’s place somehow ended up in her apartment. She said she didn’t know how it got there, but allowed Eagle to take it when he was leaving her apartment approximately an hour before witnesses saw Diehl being attacked.

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Surveillance video shows Keewatin at her sister’s apartment that day. She told defence lawyer Ian Wagner that she did not see a knife at either her sister’s apartment or her mother’s suite, and that her sister never talked about giving Eagle a knife.

Saskatchewan’s chief forensic pathologist testified that Diehl was stabbed three times and died from a stab wound to the chest.

During cross-examination, Keewatin told the Crown that Diehl’s ex-girlfriend was Eagle’s sister.

The defence closed its case—without calling the accused to the stand—Wednesday afternoon. Closing arguments will take place Thursday morning.

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by Bre McAdam

Victim’s girlfriend testifies at Saskatoon murder trial

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