WARNING: This story contains details of sexual violence.
A man charged with the first degree murder of a 13-year-old girl in Burnaby, B.C., has been found guilty by a Supreme Court jury.
Ibrahim Ali pleaded not guilty when the extensive trial began in April.
Crown prosecutors told the jury the victim, whose name is protected by a publication ban, was passing through Burnaby Central Park on July 18, 2017, when she was attacked and dragged into the woods before she was sexually assaulted and strangled to death.
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Ali was arrested over a year later on Sept. 7, 2018.
The jury heard from dozens of witnesses called by Crown prosecutors,