A 28-year-old Toronto man accused of killing his mother and father and attempting to kill his brother has been discovered accountable.
The decision within the judge-alone trial for Alpha Henry was delivered in a Toronto courtroom Thursday afternoon. Alpha has been on trial for 2 counts of second-degree homicide referring to the deadly 2022 stabbing of his mother and father, Veronica and Colin Henry, and one depend of tried homicide referring to his youthful brother, Daniel Kwame Henry.
Superior Court docket Justice Joan Barrett rejected Alpha’s variations of occasions that his brother was the one accountable, saying Thursday she discovered Alpha chargeable for the illegal act of stabbing his mother and father to loss of life and attempting to kill his brother.
Alpha’s lawyer had already said if Barrett discovered him accountable, they’d increase the problem of being not criminally accountable (NCR) and would search an evaluation.
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“I do not believe the defendant’s accounts that Daniel attacked him and his parents,” Barrett stated Thursday.
“I reject it. It does not accord with reason and common sense.”
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On Sept. 21, 2022, at round 1:40 a.m., police had been referred to as to unit 417 at 27 Bergamot Ave. in Etobicoke once they discovered Alpha contained in the unit and his mother and father deceased within the bathtub.
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In the course of the trial, Daniel stated he had come house to seek out his brother, who was homeless, brandishing a knife. He stated his brother stated, “die, bitch” earlier than attacking him with the knife.
Daniel stated there was a scuffle, and he managed to wrestle the knife away from Alpha earlier than escaping the residence, operating down the hallway and out a stairwell. He ran to a gasoline station the place he requested a passerby to name 911 as a result of he stated he had misplaced his cellphone within the commotion.
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Assistant Crown legal professional Michael Wilson instructed Barrett that Alpha had used his deceased mom’s cellphone to textual content Daniel whereas he was away on enterprise, and arrange his brother.
However Alpha’s lawyer, Jamie Kopman, argued it was his brother Daniel who killed his mother and father.
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Alpha persistently instructed police each when he referred to as 911, and later gave a press release to police, that Daniel arrived house and was pissed off to seek out his mother and father engaged in prayer. Alpha stated it was Daniel who attacked him and killed his mother and father, earlier than operating off with the knife.
However Wilson stated that Daniel was in a foreign country from Sept. 18 to twenty, and video surveillance exhibits he didn’t return to the residence till 1:35 a.m. on Sept. 21.
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The Crown had argued that Alpha fatally stabbed his mother and father someday after 11:52 a.m. on Sept. 19, and afterwards, used his mom’s cellphone to not solely textual content his brother, however to speak with people for {sex} companies. The our bodies, which had been doused in gasoline, had been deceased for a while once they had been discovered, court docket heard.
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The Crown additionally argued Alpha used his mom’s key fob to enter his mother and father’ constructing. Previous to their deaths, video surveillance confirmed Alpha was unable to realize entry to the constructing.
“The Crown submits there is motive: he murdered his parents and he knows his brother is coming home, and that’s the reason to end his brother’s life – to avoid liability for his crime,” Wilson stated throughout closing submissions on Nov. 19.
However Kopman pointed to the truth that the forensic pathologist may solely say the time of loss of life was someday after Veronica was final seen or heard from on Sept. 19, and earlier than she was discovered deceased on Sept. 21.
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The defence argued there was cheap doubt as as to if Alpha did it, and there’s an absence of proof as as to if Daniel was accountable.
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“There is a knife found on Daniel Henry. We don’t know whose DNA is found on that knife,” Kopman stated Nov. 19.
“There’s no conclusive evidence Alpha cleaned up the scene and was waiting for his brother to come home.”
After Kopman raised the problem of NCR, Wilson instructed Barrett he was not shocked by the defence’s request, given the Crown anticipated the argument of NCR by cause of a psychological dysfunction could be superior.
The case will return to court docket Jan. 17 to argue for an NCR evaluation, which the Crown stated Thursday it will likely be opposing.
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