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Cases against people charged with killing Jannai Dopwell-Bailey go to trial stage

The teenager was fatally stabbed outside his Côte-des-Neiges school Oct. 18, 2021.

A vigil for 16-year-old Jannai Dopwell-Bailey was held in Montreal Oct. 22, 2021.
A vigil for 16-year-old Jannai Dopwell-Bailey was held in Montreal Oct. 22, 2021. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

The cases against the two people charged in connection with the murder of 16-year-old Jannai Dopwell-Bailey in Côte-des-Neiges have entered the trial stage.

The Crown filed a preferred indictment Friday against Andrei Donet, 19, the adult who was charged with second-degree murder a month after the teenager was fatally stabbed outside his school Oct. 18, 2021. Through a preferred indictment, a case can go straight to trial without a preliminary inquiry.

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Donet will return to the Montreal courthouse in January for a case management hearing. The date of his trial has yet to be set.

The first person to be charged in the homicide, a minor, underwent a preliminary inquiry in youth court Nov. 9. A judge agreed there is enough evidence in the minor’s case for him to have a trial on a second-degree murder charge.

The minor’s case returns to court in December for a formality hearing.

The minor was 16 when he was arrested and his name cannot be published due to a standard publication ban.

pcherry@postmedia.com

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