Jurors at a high-profile Winnipeg murder trial have heard graphic testimony from a coroner of how Beverly Rowbotham died.
Dr. John MacDonald testified yesterday that Rowbotham died of traumatic injuries to the brain inflicted by blows from a hatchet in 2000.
Rowbotham's husband, Mark Stobbe, a former bureaucrat in both the Saskatchewan and Manitoba governments who currenly resides in Saskatoon, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in her death.
Macdonald told the court he found 27 sites of injury. Of those, 22 were so-called chop wounds -- 16 to the head, four to the hands and two to the left shoulder blade.
