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Protection lawyer Alain Hepner stated Sean Brooks’ declare that his shopper, William McIntosh, was concerned within the assault might have been clouded by medication or alcohol.
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“Mr Brooks was beneath the affect, stoned, or clearly mistaken about (McIntosh’s) involvement,” Hepner instructed Decide Michael Marion within the Courtroom of King’s Bench.
“He simply bought it fallacious,” the lawyer stated. “I am not minimizing what occurred to Mr. Brooks, I am simply saying it did not contain Will McIntosh.”
The prosecutor says Brooks’ sturdy reminiscence of escaping contradicts claims that he was drunk
McIntosh, 29, is charged with housebreaking with intent to commit illegal detention and aggravated assault in reference to a March 5, 2021, incident in Brooks’ northeast Calgary basement suite.
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At that time he was capable of let go of his palms as a result of the bleach that had been poured into his eyes and onto his wounds had made him oily sufficient to slide the zip ties that sure him. He then smashed his bed room window and fled.
Bodily proof of Brooks’ path after he escaped corroborates reminiscence, the prosecutor says
Brooks stated he went to the next-door neighbor’s home and knocked on the door, however bought no reply, earlier than working down the road, tripping over a parked automobile and climbing over a fence earlier than getting right into a yard collapsed.
Bloodstains on the neighbour’s door, hood and fender of a parked automobile and on high of the posters within the fence “confirmed Mr. Brooks’ description of his flight from the scene,” Kelly stated.
The prosecutor stated recommendations that Brooks’ reminiscence was tainted by intoxicants “are contradicted by his recollection of his escape.”
A second man on trial with McIntosh, Rory Libbrecht, was acquitted Thursday when Marion agreed with protection lawyer Kristen Lancee that there was no proof figuring out him as being concerned within the assault.
A 3rd suspect, Cole McLean, could have his case settled at a later date.
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