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Fatal stabbing victim Ismail (Izzy) Charanek suffered multiple wounds, including three which severely damaged major blood vessels in his neck, a pathologist testified Monday.
Dr. Akmal Coetzee-Khan described nine different knife wounds to Charanek’s neck and back, including two which pierced his lung.
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But Alberta’s chief medical officer said the most serious wounds were slices to the victim’s left and right jugular veins and his carotid artery.
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The most serious were the wounds to Charanek’s jugular veins and his carotid artery.
He told defence counsel Mary Stephensen those injuries would have resulted in a quick death for the victim as the veins were completely severed and the artery partially.
“The wounds to the neck are, by themselves, fatal,” the doctor said.
Multiple deadly wounds inflicted: pathologist
But Coetzee-Khan also said the wounds which injured the victim’s lung would also have been deadly if not given medical intervention in a timely fashion.
But the combination of the three severe neck wounds could have proved fatal in less than 15 minutes, the pathologist said, noting the carotid artery injury would have bled even more quickly than the other two.
And he said any of the three had the potential to be deadly.
“Those could be, on their own, individually fatal,” Coetzee-Khan said.
“The ones to the left side of the back could also be fatal because of the injury to the lung.”
Earlier in the trial court heard Nakasenh-Bandasak admitted stabbing his roommate, but said he was acting in self-defence.
Police also found a knife in a sheath in an area in the city’s southwest, a more than 20 kilometre drive from the scene, which the accused had led undercover police officers to.
Both items contained the deceased’s DNA profile.
The trial continues Tuesday.
Nakasenh-Bandasak remains in custody pending an outcome to the case.
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