Unamused Cat
March 7th, 2008, 11:34 PM
Part 1 The killing
Canada: A Brampton man and the woman he killed took a bizarre taxi ride before their deadly fight, a court heard today.
Ryan Bucknor and his girlfriend Audrey Cote, dressed only in her night shirt, took the 30-minute ride to and from Cote's residence between about 10:20 a.m. and 11:10 a.m. on July 31, 2005.
By about 1:00 p.m., Cote, 21, was dead, the victim of a beating admittedly inflicted by Bucknor in Cote’s basement apartment in a home on Fletcher's Creek Blvd. in Brampton.
"He pulled her into the taxi very hard and she fell on his lap and was crying," Quik Cab driver Arun Jain told jurors today in a Brampton courtroom.
Bucknor, 28, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Cote, a stripper from Charlesbourg, Que.
Prosecutor Dave King rejected Bucknor's plea to manslaughter before this trial began and is now trying to prove Bucknor intended to kill Cote when he beat her to death.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/306681
Part 2 Guilty of Manslaughter
Mar 06, 2008 04:28 PM
Bob Mitchell
Staff Reporter
A Brampton man never intended to kill his girlfriend when he viciously beat her to death, a jury decided today.
The seven men and five women found Ryan Bucknor not guilty of second-degree murder - but guilty of manslaughter - in the July 31, 2005 slaying of Audrey Cote, 21.
Defence attorney Aston Hall had insisted Bucknor was "out of touch with reality" and suffering from a major mental illness, likely schizophrenia, when he began beating his on-and-off-again girlfriend from Charlesbourg, Que.
The jury deliberated for more than 10 hours over two days before reaching a verdict just before 4 p.m. this afternoon.
Justice John Sproat will decide how long Bucknor must remain locked up before he can seek parole when he returns for sentencing in about six weeks.
Prosecutor Dave King rejected Bucknor's bid to plead guilty to manslaughter before the trial began. King was confident he could prove Bucknor knew what he was doing when he repeatedly punched Cote about her face, stomped on her chest and possibly tried to strangle her that Sunday morning in her basement apartment at a residence on Fletcher's Creek Blvd. in Brampton.
But jurors thought otherwise.
Bucknor never denied killing Cote, who worked for a Brampton strip club.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/310162
bah...
Canada: A Brampton man and the woman he killed took a bizarre taxi ride before their deadly fight, a court heard today.
Ryan Bucknor and his girlfriend Audrey Cote, dressed only in her night shirt, took the 30-minute ride to and from Cote's residence between about 10:20 a.m. and 11:10 a.m. on July 31, 2005.
By about 1:00 p.m., Cote, 21, was dead, the victim of a beating admittedly inflicted by Bucknor in Cote’s basement apartment in a home on Fletcher's Creek Blvd. in Brampton.
"He pulled her into the taxi very hard and she fell on his lap and was crying," Quik Cab driver Arun Jain told jurors today in a Brampton courtroom.
Bucknor, 28, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Cote, a stripper from Charlesbourg, Que.
Prosecutor Dave King rejected Bucknor's plea to manslaughter before this trial began and is now trying to prove Bucknor intended to kill Cote when he beat her to death.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/306681
Part 2 Guilty of Manslaughter
Mar 06, 2008 04:28 PM
Bob Mitchell
Staff Reporter
A Brampton man never intended to kill his girlfriend when he viciously beat her to death, a jury decided today.
The seven men and five women found Ryan Bucknor not guilty of second-degree murder - but guilty of manslaughter - in the July 31, 2005 slaying of Audrey Cote, 21.
Defence attorney Aston Hall had insisted Bucknor was "out of touch with reality" and suffering from a major mental illness, likely schizophrenia, when he began beating his on-and-off-again girlfriend from Charlesbourg, Que.
The jury deliberated for more than 10 hours over two days before reaching a verdict just before 4 p.m. this afternoon.
Justice John Sproat will decide how long Bucknor must remain locked up before he can seek parole when he returns for sentencing in about six weeks.
Prosecutor Dave King rejected Bucknor's bid to plead guilty to manslaughter before the trial began. King was confident he could prove Bucknor knew what he was doing when he repeatedly punched Cote about her face, stomped on her chest and possibly tried to strangle her that Sunday morning in her basement apartment at a residence on Fletcher's Creek Blvd. in Brampton.
But jurors thought otherwise.
Bucknor never denied killing Cote, who worked for a Brampton strip club.
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/310162
bah...