Confessed killer wasn’t acting in self-defence, says Crown

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Anger, not worry, drove a Calgary man to fatally stab his roommate in the midst of a southeast road, a prosecutor argued Thursday in looking for a homicide conviction.

However the lawyer for Eddy Nakasenh-Bandasak mentioned the proof in her consumer’s trial is as according to innocence than guilt.

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And defence counsel Mary Stephensen mentioned if Justice Nancy Dilts doesn’t discover the confessed killer was performing in self-defence, she might nonetheless discover Nakasenh-Bandasak was provoked by sufferer Ismail (Izzy) Charanek.

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In that case, Nakasenh-Bandasak would solely be responsible of manslaughter.

He’s charged with second-degree homicide within the Sept. 22, 2020, loss of life of Charanek, whom he repeatedly stabbed on the road outdoors their Lynnview Rd. S.E. residence.

Crown prosecutor Tiffany Dwyer mentioned Nakasenh-Bandasak’s personal phrase to now retired murder Det. Dave Candy exhibits he wasn’t partaking in self-preservation when he slashed the sufferer’s throat and stabbed him within the again.

Proof from pathologist Dr. Akmal Coetzee-Khan confirmed the deceased had each his jugular veins in his neck severed and had his carotid artery sliced. Charanek additionally suffered a number of stab wounds to his higher torso, two of which pierced a lung.

Nakasenh-Bandasak instructed Candy he feared Charanek, who was typically violent along with his girlfriend, was out to hurt him as they argued on the street over the latter’s try and evict the accused.

Dwyer mentioned that whereas the accused claimed he stabbed the deceased in self-defence, he additionally expressed anger at how Charanek and his girlfriend, Madison Williams, handled him.

The prosecutor mentioned Nakasenh-Bandasak painted himself as a sufferer in what she known as a “self-serving” assertion to the detective.

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“Eddy acknowledged Ismail was his greatest buddy,” Dwyer famous.

“But he states he was indignant as a result of Ismail was going to kick him out, leaving him with nothing.”

Nakasenh-Bandasak indicated he felt each Charanek and Williams had been utilizing him, she mentioned.

“They . . . leeched me dry. They sucked the blood out of me,” Dwyer quoted the accused from his police assertion.

“This isn’t a person describing worry, this can be a man describing resentment,” she mentioned.

“This isn’t self-defence. It’s resentment, it’s anger.”

Stephensen mentioned the proof of the one witness to the killing, neighbour Lisa Edmand, portrayed Charanek because the aggressor earlier than he was fatally stabbed, exhibiting her consumer both acted to stop his personal grievous hurt, or was provoked into performing violently.

Edmand witnessed an altercation between Charanek and Williams about quarter-hour earlier earlier than watching the lethal altercation round 4:15 a.m. within the darkened road outdoors her condominium.

“She described the aggressor in each events to be the deceased and he was expressing comparable loss of life threats to each Ms. Williams and to the accused,” Stephensen mentioned.

Dilts will hand down her verdict on April 29.

KMartin@postmedia.com

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