BOSTON — A grandmother of four, a retired Canton police sergeant and a New Hampshire resident gathered outside the John J. Moakley Courthouse in Boston shortly before a federal judge set a trial date in the case against Matthew Farwell — a former Stoughton police officer accused of killing Sandra Birchmore in 2021.
None of the three protestors said they personally knew Birchmore, who was just 23 years old and pregnant when she was found dead inside her Canton apartment nearly five years ago. They still braved the chilly Autumn morning on Thursday, Oct. 16, to stand outside the courthouse holding signs in her honor.
The three are part of the much larger “Justice for Sandra Birchmore” movement, a group made up of Birchmore’s family, her friends and thousands of strangers similarly angered by the alleged actions of three former Stoughton police officers accused of grooming Birchmore in the years before her death…