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**Jezreel** · 05-22-2012 05:03 PM

Here is a pretty candid interview with Rodney and his mother Doreen, the heartbreak and anger is apparent, they didn't hold back, and Doreen said that Rafferty was at the very first candlelight vigil that was held for Tori 4 days after she went missing. Worth a watch.

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/featu...3010314001

Randy Richmond of the Lonond Free Press who in my opinion has done a brilliant job of reporting Tori's story from the very beginning wrote a great article about Tori and why she will always matter.

Snippet: A few nights ago, almost in tears, my wife said to me:

"So this is it? Once the trial is over we're all supposed to just forget about Tori? When it's all over, she's really gone and no one remembers her again?"

The first answer I gave to my wife is one I believe to be true.

"I think people will remember her."

The second thing I said is something I know to be true.

"I'm going to miss her."

That is, I know, a strange thing for someone who never met Tori Stafford to say.

Today, you'll read how Tori's death ripped apart the lives of those closest to her. The strength of her family astonishes.

I'm exhausted and scarred merely from thinking and writing about her death. But I'll try my best here to explain why Tori will always matter to me, and the thousands and thousands of other Canadians touched

More: http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/raffe...62406.html
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A video essay that tells the story of Tori Stafford from April 8, 2009, the day she was abducted, to May 11, 2012, the day Michael Rafferty was convicted of first degree murder, abduction, and sexual assault.

http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/raffe...57316.html

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**Jezreel** · 08-03-2012 08:07 AM

Well the SOB is appealing

CBC - Michael Rafferty is appealing his first-degree murder conviction in the killing of Victoria (Tori) Stafford, the eight-year-old girl who disappeared near her home in Woodstock, Ont., more than three years ago.

Rafferty received a life sentence after he was found guilty of first-degree murder, sexual assault causing bodily harm and kidnapping following his 2½ month trial in a London courthouse earlier this year.

In the document, filed with the Court of Appeal of Ontario on July 26, Rafferty says "the jury failed to apprehend the evidentiary requirement to convict for first-degree murder." He also says Justice Thomas Heeney failed to properly instruct the jury. - The judge took a lot of time and care over his charge, I don't think that will fly. I also believe the jury fully understood what constitutes first degree murder here. Hell Even the stupid idiot himself said after the victim impact statements that he was a big part of why Tori wasn't here today!

Rafferty also writes that he missed the 30-day deadline to appeal because he had difficulty accessing a telephone to contact legal counsel.

Rafferty says he would prefer a trial by jury, if a second trial is ordered.

The application appears to have been filed from Kingston Penitentiary. - Haha bet he's having fun with Bernado and Williams in that shithole.

Rafferty was found guilty on May 11 after more than a day of deliberations but Justice Heeney was criticized for excluding certain character evidence collected by the police, including that Rafferty had used his computer to search for child pornography.

That information was deemed inadmissible because police failed to get proper search warrants when accessing data on Rafferty’ laptop.

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