Dead infants case: Andrea Giesbrecht's bail hearing delayed

A bail hearing for Andrea Giesbrecht, the Winnipeg woman charged in connection with the discovery of the remains of six infants in a storage locker, was delayed again Tuesday afternoon.

The 40-year-old has been in custody since police found the remains in a U-Haul locker on McPhillips Street on Oct. 20.

She has been charged with six counts of concealing the bodies of a child.

A bail hearing was held on Dec. 1, but Giesbrecht's lawyer, Greg Brodsky, said he wanted to see the autopsy results first.

On Tuesday, Brodsky said the preliminary autopsy reports provided were inadequate, and he is waiting for an "expanded autopsy report." Brodsky requested the expanded report from the Crown, and the hearing was put over until Friday morning. 

Brodsky said he had the hearing put over because he didn't want anyone "to be able to see that she had anything to do with preventing a live birth."

He said if the expanded autopsy reports were not provided by the Crown by Friday, he would look at whether or not to delay the hearing again.

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The disturbing discovery at the storage locker was made after U-Haul employees were trying to clean out the locker because the rent had not been paid.

The bodies were in various states of decomposition and had been wrapped in kitchen-style garbage bags, placed in duffel bags and stored inside large household containers.

​It was only obvious to police that one of the remains was that of an infant because officers saw what appeared to be a child's limb. Those remains had been wrapped in a towel and garbage bag and placed in a white five-gallon pail.

The autopsy process had been halted and tied up in a court challenge by Brodsky, who wanted the remaining autopsies to be witnessed by an independent pathologist and videotaped. That request was denied last month.