Jurors shown accused killers' clothes and shoes with blood spots on them

RCMP Cpl. Andrew Norris carefully removed black hoodies, pants, shoes and gloves from exhibit bags one-by-one in B.C. Supreme Court on Friday and carried each across the room to show jurors up-close.

He flipped the clothing from front-to-back and showed the shoes from several angles to Justice Miriam Gropper and the jury at the Vancouver murder trial of Gursimran Sahota and Tanvir Khakh.

Sahota and Khakh leaned in and looked carefully at the exhibits as Norris walked past them. Their lawyers went over to the Mountie for a closer look at two pairs of black batting gloves found inside a black Chrysler in which the accused killers were stopped in Squamish four years ago.

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Norris agreed with Crown prosecutor Don Montrichard that he had assumed custody of the clothing and other exhibits seized by other officers after Meninder Dhaliwal and Satindera Gill were murdered outside Whistler’s Sundial Hotel on July 24, 2022.

The jurors had already heard admissions at the trial about Dhaliwal’s blood being found on the shoes and pants that Sahota and Khakh were wearing when they were arrested less than an hour after the murders.

Two spots on Khakh’s black Reebok runners had Dhaliwal’s blood and DNA on them, as did “an area on the upper front right side” of the Puma pants he was wearing, according to the admissions, read into the record by Montrichard.

Sahota’s black Armani pants had spots of Dhaliwal’s blood at the upper left thigh near the crotch and on the exterior front right bottom cuff, the admissions also said.