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Accused found guilty of second degree murder after confessing to his ex-wife.
The accused was charged with second degree murder following the death of his friend, who was found beaten to death in his rented room.
The Crown's case relied on circumstantial evidence and the direct evidence of the accused's ex-wife, who testified that the accused confessed to the killing during a drunken phone call.
The court accepted the ex-wife's testimony, finding it corroborated by cell phone records and non-public details of the crime scene.
Despite evidence of the accused's intoxication, the court found he possessed the requisite mens rea for murder given the brutality of the assault and his subsequent actions to conceal the crime.
The accused was found guilty of second degree murder.
Accused found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for stabbing wife and mother-in-law.
The accused was tried for two counts of first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his wife and mother-in-law.
The Crown argued for constructive first-degree murder on the basis that the killings occurred during a forcible confinement.
The accused conceded he killed the victims but argued he lacked the requisite intent due to intoxication and denied forcible confinement.
The court rejected the intoxication defence, finding the accused had the intent to murder based on his actions, the extent of the injuries, and his post-offence conduct.
The court also found that the accused forcibly confined the victims by dragging them from an upstairs bedroom to the kitchen where the fatal wounds were inflicted.
The accused was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder.
