Wed Feb 22, 05:52 AM

Graphic testimony at Stobbe murder trial

The Canadian Press
Mark Stobbe is charged with second-degree murder in the 2000 death of his wife Beverly Rowbotham.
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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.

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