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34 Ghyslaine Pomerleau, the witness who stated at trial that she had heard the [translation] “unusually long scream of a teenaged girl” during the night of the murder, had made a number of statements prior to trial which were never disclosed to the defence. The version of the facts that this witness gave changed over the course of her statements. For instance, on March 20, 1990, she said that she had heard a woman’s scream. The next day, she described the scream as being rather the scream of a teenaged girl. On April 10, 1990, the scream became the scream of a person [translation] “surprised from behind”. And at trial, she described the voice she had heard as the voice of a girl, not a small child or an adult. In her testimony, in the presence of the jury, she also said that she had made only one statement to the police.
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