Calgary man describes being tortured during attack in his home

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Throughout a brutal assault in his northeast Calgary basement suite that included being tortured with bleach and a blowtorch, Sean Brooks was satisfied he was going to die.

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Brooks advised the trial of two metropolis males Tuesday that his attackers mentioned placing him in his bathtub to bleed him out and eradicating his kidneys.

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“I bear in mind listening to, ‘Let’s bleed him out within the tub, let’s go for his kidneys,'” Brooks advised Crown prosecutor Jack Kelly.

“At this level I accepted I used to be going to die. I prayed.”

William McIntosh, who lived within the higher flooring of the Falcon Rise NE home through which Brooks occupied the basement suite, and Rory Libbrecht, are going through fees of housebreaking of the dwelling with intent to restrict the complainant and critical assault in reference to the March 5, 2021, assault.

A 3rd suspect, Cole McLean, was additionally as a consequence of stand trial this week, however his case was postponed till a later date.

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Brooks advised the Court docket of King’s Bench listening to the incident started with a break-in to his basement suite by different events.

These people ransacked his place earlier than breaking into the upstairs unit to search for McIntosh’s firearms, he stated.

However after they found McIntosh’s three-year-old son alone within the residence, they fled, Brooks testified.

The court docket heard earlier that McIntosh’s estranged spouse, Ashley Corbett, left the boy alone in the home for a short while whereas she took her and her ex’s daughter to high school.

Brooks stated he was in his suite when an offended McIntosh got here in with a big man he did not know and accused him of breaking into the higher a part of the home.

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He stated he was then repeatedly assaulted by these two people, earlier than two different masked males – one he recognized as McLean – joined.

Brooks says he had his arms held behind his again with zip ties and was repeatedly kicked and punched.

Through the assault, he additionally had bleach sprayed in his eyes and on his open wounds and had a blowtorch utilized to his head, singeing his hair and burning the highest of his left ear.

At one stage three of the attackers retreated upstairs whereas one of many masked intruders remained to maintain watch.

Brooks then advised the person he had stashed money and medicines and would inform the person the place they have been if he was launched, after which the person went upstairs to speak to the others.

As a result of his arms have been slick from the bleach, Brooks was capable of free himself from the zip ties and break his bed room window to flee.

Brooks stated he fell right into a three-day coma after emergency responders arrived and spent a further 5 days at Foothills Medical Heart, the place he was handled for his accidents, together with 4 damaged ribs, a collapsed lung and chemical burns.

KMartin@postmedia.com

Twitter: @KMartinCourts