Driver found dead, cargo missing
Jun 16, 2008 - 10:29 AM
By Jeff Mitchell
OSHAWA -- A Montreal man has been committed to stand trial for the killing of a trucker whose body was found two years ago behind a Pickering shopping mall.
Paul Cyr, 51, is charged with first-degree murder in the June 2006 slaying of Brockville trucker Donald Woods, 35. Ontario Court Justice David Stone committed the man to trial Friday following a preliminary hearing.
Evidence reviewed during that hearing is covered by a publication ban.
Mr. Cyr is also charged with unlawful confinement, theft over $5,000 and use of a firearm during an offence.
Mr. Woods went missing after departing Brockville June 21, 2006, bound for the GTA with a load of air-chilled chicken. His rig was found two days later behind a Pickering Wal-Mart store; Mr. Woods was dead in the rig and the load of chicken was missing.
Police arrested Mr. Cyr in October of 2006.
A pretrial is set for Superior Court in the fall.
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