When she spoke about Chris Bond, Mary Lou Pierrard kept repeating one sentence.

“Adam Bishop did not have a right to end my brother’s life,” she said Friday in a Sarnia courtroom.

Pierrard recalled Bond was a smart youngster who skipped a grade in elementary school and was a talented, ambidextrous hockey player. Later in life, he was tortured by limited mobility and the use of a walker and he struggled to deal with the breakup of his marriage.

But between anecdotes, Pierrard kept repeating that one thought: Bishop had no right to end his life.

The body of Bond, a 66-year-old homeless Sarnia man, was discovered inside Unit 4 at 219 Queen St., a second-level apartment near Devine Street, on Feb. 21, 2024 around 10:30 a.m.

After a couple of days on the lam, Adam Bishop, a 40-year-old man

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