A high profile court case in Thunder Bay has been pushed back due to a fire at the courthouse.
Braydon Bushby’s lawyer, George Joseph, confirmed the trial, to start next week, has been put off until later this year.
There was a fire over the weekend on the top floor, in an electrical vault, which caused heavy water damage to the top three floors, which closed the courthouse down.
The lawyer adds if, for some reason, the trial can’t proceed this year, it’ll be sometime in the new year.
George Joseph also confirmed the second-degree murder charge against the 21-year-old is downgraded to a manslaughter trial, not a murder trial.
The 21-year-old Bushby is charged after an alleged incident in January of 2017 involving a trailer hitch thrown out of a moving vehicle at Barbara Kentner.
She passed away in July of that same year.
The trial will also be before a judge and not a jury.