An Oshawa courtroom heard from Anthony Doiron-Francis at the moment. He’s the Whitby man accused within the violent assault of a 50-year-old woman, and leaving her for lifeless in July 2020.
Doiron-Francis is going through charges of tried homicide and aggravated sexual assault. He took the stand on the fourth day of trial on Nov. 22, and stated the state of affairs “got out of hand”.
The Oshawa courthouse heard Doiron-Francis maintains his solely aim that evening was to movie a lady from behind, to get a video of her butt jiggling for his private sexual gratification. He says he has an issue, that he “never got treated for”, which is why he wanted to observe the sufferer, whose id stays protected resulting from a publication ban.
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He advised the courtroom he had no intention of wounding the sufferer, or anybody. He admitted to following her for a distance to make sure he may get “close up” to get a video, and when she confronted him in regards to the recording, he says he acted out of panic.
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When the sufferer circled, Doiron-Francis says he had by no means been in a state of affairs the place he had been confronted about recording somebody, and that he proceeded to hit her on the pinnacle, which then led to a wrestle off the sidewalk into the wooded space.
Crown legal professional Tammy Holland outlined the route the sufferer and Doiron-Francis took as he adopted her.
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Doiron-Francis maintained he was simply making an attempt to “get out”, and get his cellphone, which he feared anybody seeing due to pornography on it. He described the wrestle between he and the sufferer, which led to placing her in a headlock. He says he was simply “doing anything I could to make her shut up”.
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The Crown says she was sporting tight leggings, and the victims underwear was additionally eliminated. She requested if that is when he meant to rape her.
Doiron-Francis responded, “She wasn’t going to get raped, I had no intentions of sexually assaulting her”. He stated her pants got here off when he fell and grabbed onto them. He “couldn’t control” her underwear coming off too.
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Doiron-Francis admited he did irreparable injury to the sufferer’s life, however says he didn’t imply to. He was making an attempt to get a video, of anybody, and it occurred to be the sufferer. “I didn’t want my entire reason for being outside to be defeated” he stated.
He stated, “If I wanted her dead, she’d be dead”.
The trial is predicted to proceed on Nov. 29.
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