Crown, defence lay out their cases regarding Quebec’s 2012 election shooting
MONTREAL — The Crown and defence clashed one last time at the trial of accused murderer Richard Henry Bain on Thursday as they attempted to bolster their cases before the jury is sequestered.
In his closing arguments, prosecutor Dennis Galiatsatos said that although Bain claims he doesn’t remember what happened when he allegedly pulled the trigger on the night of Sept. 4, 2012, the accused offered a detailed account in handwritten notes to a forensic psychiatrist two months later.
Bain told defence expert Marie-Frederique Allard during that meeting “the plan was to kill as many separatists as I could.”
Galiatsatos said the evidence on the whole suggests Bain had a premeditated plan to kill and a political motive fuelled by anger over the Parti Quebecois victory that day.