Accused in Ajax triple slaying was in a rage after breakup and knew what he was doing, Crown says
CBC
Cory Fenn, accused in the slayings of a mother and her two children, knew exactly what he was doing when he carried out the killings, the Crown said Monday during closing arguments at Fenn's trial.
Crown attorney Mike Newell said "the sheer brutality" of the attacks on the victims showed Fenn's intent to murder.
Fenn, 33, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Krassimira Pejcinovski, 39, her 13-year-old daughter, Venellia, and her 15-year-old son, Roy.
The mother and daughter were found stabbed to death while the son died as a result of strangulation at their Ajax, Ont., home on March 14, 2018.
Newell said Fenn, who admitted to the killings in an interview with a Durham Police homicide detective the day after they happened, was "demonstrably aware" of his surroundings and remembered what he had done that day.
"He had the wherewithal to lie and deflect," Newell said in court Monday.
Fenn told police he was in a state of "cocaine psychosis" at the time of the killings and only remembered "bits and pieces" of what happened. He is representing himself after firing his former attorney, and declined to testify in court last week.