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ST. THOMAS – The details of Lady’s injuries are grisly, that much is known.

Now, Justice Glen Donald is tasked with determining whether the dog’s owner, Tarrick Fakira-Martin, caused those injuries.

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Fakira-Martin pleaded not guilty to charges of injuring an animal.

St. Thomas police Const. Daniel Ainsworth spent Monday morning testifying about what he found when the body of a dog was unearthed from a shallow grave late on July 3, 2018.

Ainsworth went through each of the 23 photographs he took of the dog’s body and where the dog’s body was found, as directed by assistant Crown attorney Vanessa Stewart.

Ainsworth said there had been recent digging at a site at the north end of St. Catharine Street near the rail lines. He and another officer started digging and located black material.

The two officers continued digging slowly and carefully, Ainsworth told the court, until they could see fur from an animal.