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Derek Saretzky fit to stand trial: mother of Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette

Derek Saretzky has passed a psychiatric assessment and is fit to stand trial in the death of two-year-old Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette and her father Terry Blanchette, the girl's mother Cheyenne Dunbar tells CBC News late Wednesday.

Dunbar says RCMP called her Wednesday with the news.

Saretzky's case is in court Thursday with two murder charges in the deaths of Hailey and her father Terry Blanchette. He faces a separate charge of committing an indignity to the little girl's body.

The body of Terry Blanchette, 27, was discovered in his home in Blairmore, in the Crowsnest Pass, in September.

Hailey was discovered a day later in a rural area after an Amber Alert stretched across Western Canada and into the United States.

Saretzky was ordered to undergo a 30-day psychiatric assessment ​at a hearing in September but court was told the 30-day mental review he had been undergoing was not sufficient and another month was needed.