The jury trial of a man accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Burnaby in 2017 began Wednesday in the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Ibrahim Ali is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Marrisa Shen. He entered a plea of not guilty to the crime in court Wednesday morning.
Shen’s body was found in a wooded corner of Burnaby’s Central Park on July 18, 2017, several hours after she went missing.
Ali was arrested over a year later, on Sept. 7, 2018.
Police have said Ali, who was 28 years old at the time of his arrest, had no previous criminal record and arrived
