New Brunswick python trial hears emotional testimony: more witnesses today

CAMPBELLTON, N.B. — The trial of a man charged in the deaths of two young New Brunswick boys, who were suffocated by a python, heard emotional testimony from their mother on Wednesday.

Mandy Trecartin said she had no reservations about leaving her four-year-old son Noah Barthe and his six-year-old brother Connor for a sleepover at the apartment of Jean-Claude Savoie, who she described as a close friend.

She said shortly before 7 a.m. the next morning, Savoie was banging on her door and saying that his African rock python had escaped and killed the boys.

It’s believed the snake travelled through a ventilation duct and fell into the living room where the boys were sleeping.