More details emerge in Hamilton murder trial

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Details of the night that a two year old boy died in an east end Hamilton apartment were the main focus on Friday at the second-degree murder trial of Greg Dalley. The jury learned more about what happened on July 13th, 2012, when Noah Keizer’s mother stayed after her shift, to have a few drinks in the bar where she worked.

As he resumed his cross-examination, defence lawyer Greg Leslie established a number of points that seemed to favour his client, Greg Dalley. He got Noah’s mother Nicole Agnew to agree that there had never been any apparent friction between Noah and Mr. Dalley.

Nicole testified that Dalley never complained about watching Noah, and never showed anger or impatience with the toddler. She’d never come home to Noah and found Mr. Dalley impaired by drugs or alcohol – nor had she ever seen any kind of injury to Noah, after leaving him with Mr. Dalley. She recounted the text messages and phone calls from both Mr. Dalley, and her neighbour, on the night that Noah died.

At first she was told that Noah was bleeding, but everything was fine. Within an hour she learned her son had been fatally injured.

The next witness was Constable Jamie Thompson, who was the first to respond to the 911 call.

She described a chaotic scene with up to a dozen people crammed into a small apartment around the body of Noah Keizer. Constable Thompson said Noah’s skin was a pale bluish-grey and she noticed a dark blue spot under his eye and a large area of swelling on his forehead, and the right side of his face. When she tried to perform CPR, she heard a gurgling sound in the back of his throat. She turned the rescue effort over to EMS soon after, and continued to collect information from the witnesses.

The neigbour is scheduled to testify on Monday.