VANCOUVER—Marissa Shen’s accused killer, Ibrahim Ali, made a brief appearance in B.C. provincial court Tuesday as his lawyer asked for the case be delayed again because the prosecutors have not yet given her all of the disclosure documents.

Ali, 28, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 13-year old Shen, whose body was found in Burnaby’s Central Park in July 2017.

None of the charges have been proven in court.

Wearing an orange jumpsuit, Ali leaned his unshaven face against the glass of the dock as he listened to an Arabic interpreter Tuesday.

His lawyer, Veen Aldosky, was telling the court she had so far received 1,158 pages of documentation, 53 hours of audio and video evidence, as well as 900 photographs.

Crown lawyer Daniel Porte agreed that while Aldosky had received the majority of disclosure files, he and the RCMP are still working on a few items, including a translation of Ali’s police statement, and lab notes about DNA evidence.

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The judge set the next court date for March 5, 2018.

Outside the courthouse, about a dozen anti-refugee demonstrators set up posters that demanded justice for Shen and blamed the Canadian government for not doing enough to protect people like Shen.

Protestors displaying similar signs have set up outside the courthouse at Ali’s past court appearances.

Last September, the Syrian-Canadian community published a letter condemning Shen’s murder and asking that the public not //to judge the whole community based on Ali’s alleged actions.

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Ali is a Syrian national with Canadian permanent residency who moved to Burnaby as a refugee in the spring of 2017, according to the RCMP. As of last September, investigators said he was employed and had family in Canada.

RCMP have said they believe the attack on Shen was random and that the girl didn’t know the suspect. Her body was found in a wooded area of Central Park in Burnaby just hours after she left home at 6 p.m. on July 18, 2017.

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