04-26-2012, 09:31 AM
Seems like the crown could wrap up their case today..... Here is an article from yesterday's testimony:
LondonFreePress - They act like young lovers everywhere, hugging, holding hands, teasing each other, laughing.
He shows off his biceps and caresses her hair. She knocks away a magazine he uses like a telescope to peer at her.
It is all so romantic, so normal.
Except that a month earlier, the young lovers were -- at the very least -- present when a charming little eight-year-old girl was beaten to death with a hammer, stuffed in garbage bags, and discarded under a pile of rocks.
Except that their acts of young love were caught on surveillance camera at the Genest youth detention centre in London, and the young woman, Terri-Lynne McClintic, would confess a few days later to abducting the girl, Victoria (Tori) Stafford, April 8, 2009.
The lawyer for the man, Michael Rafferty, has suggested that abduction was McClintic's idea and his client was a horrified bystander who didn't see the killing, but agreed to help clean up.
Yet through a timeline of phone calls and showing of Genest surveillance video, the Crown painted a picture Wednesday of Rafferty keen on keeping in touch with McClintic and showing no signs of being horrified with her behaviour.
The two contacted each other at least 97 times through cellphone calls or texts between April 9 and May 19, the day McClintic and Rafferty were arrested. He visited her once at Woodstock courthouse when she had a hearing on an unrelated charge and visited her twice in Genest while she was in custody on that charge.
Rafferty, 31, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual assault causing bodily harm.
McClintic, 21, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received a life sentence in April 2010.
She's admitted to luring Tori to Rafferty's car while the girl was walking home from school. She testified Rafferty drove the three of them to the Mount Forest area, and raped Tori.
McClintic first told police Rafferty killed Tori, but at his trial, accepted the blame for dealing the fatal hammer blows.
Four days after Tori's abduction, McClintic was arrested on a breach of community supervision relating to another offence and was sent to Genest.
The detention centre doesn't usually allow friends to visit, Kerri-Lee Cushing-Mitchener, a program manager at Genest, testified.
But McClintic had said her mother was gravely ill and sometimes she had trouble reaching her. So she asked if Rafferty, a family friend, could visit.
Rafferty got approval to visit April 27, and made his first appearance outside the doors May 8.
The detention centre videotapes the visits, but does not audiotape them because of the privacy rights of inmates, Cushing-Mitchener said.
It takes a moment on that first visit, from 7:19 p.m. to 8:18 p.m., for the two to embrace, happening only after McClintic gets up and walks over to Rafferty, motioning with her arms for a hug.
Court was shown a 10-minute clip of the visit, where Rafferty models his clothes and caresses her hair several times. They hold hands across the table and at one point it appears she's kissing his hands. They share a couple of hugs before he leaves.
In her earlier testimony, McClintic said the two spoke about what to do if police started asking her questions.
"I said that I would take the fall for everything," she testified.
The second visit lasted from 6:52 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. May 12.
In about a six-minute clip shown to court, Rafferty looks like he is showing off his biceps, picks her up and tries to teach her to lift him up.
He rolls up a magazine and pretends it's a telescope to view her. Laughing, she knocks it away.
In her testimony, McClintic described her last visit with Rafferty at Genest. She told him again she'd take the fall.
"I remember touching his face and he looked up and almost laughed at me and said, 'You'll do anything for a little bit of love, eh,' " she testified.
Earlier that same day, McClintic met police at the Woodstock courthouse, where her hearing on the other matter continued, and agreed to a polygraph test.
On May 15, police interviewed Rafferty to prepare for the McClintic polygraph. Eight minutes after the interview, Rafferty called McClintic at the detention centre.
On May 19, McClintic confessed to her role in the abduction and Rafferty was arrested.
Crown attorney Kevin Gowdey told court Wednesday "the end is near in terms of the Crown's case."
That case has tried to unravel a tangling and tumble of events, phone calls, BlackBerry messages and dates between Rafferty and more than a dozen different girlfriends from April 8 to May 19, 2009.
Through Det. Const. Gord Johnson, the Crown presented a timeline of some of the major events and cellphone calls and texts, minus most of the ones involving Rafferty's many dates, to jurors Wednesday.
April 8, 2009, was a typically busy day for Rafferty's BlackBerry. Noticeable were the gaps in outgoing calls from 2:54 p.m. to 4:18 p.m, just before and after Tori was abducted, and from 5:05 p.m. to 7:46 p.m., which matches the time McClintic said Tori was raped and killed.
Under cross-examination by Rafferty's lawyer Dirk Derstine, Johnson acknowledged that the phone records showed gaps in usage many other days as well.
Here are the two videos from his visits to TLM at the detention centre....... for someone who the defense suggested was horrified when he walked back to the car to find TLM had bludgeoned Tori to death, he doesn't appeared scared of her nor in the least bit upset or horrified.....
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/raffe...80306.html
Christie Blatchford strikes again.....
LONDON, Ont. – For just a minute, there in the visitors lounge at the Genest Detention Centre on the evening of May 12, 2009, it looked as though Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty were slow dancing.
Their arms were wrapped around one another; their feet shuffled just a bit.
Thirty-four days before, though there has been quibbling over the details ever since, the two had presided at the burial of the little girl named Victoria (Tori) Stafford.
So there they were, now dancing or almost dancing, on that child’s grave.
More: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012...ord-death/
LondonFreePress - They act like young lovers everywhere, hugging, holding hands, teasing each other, laughing.
He shows off his biceps and caresses her hair. She knocks away a magazine he uses like a telescope to peer at her.
It is all so romantic, so normal.
Except that a month earlier, the young lovers were -- at the very least -- present when a charming little eight-year-old girl was beaten to death with a hammer, stuffed in garbage bags, and discarded under a pile of rocks.
Except that their acts of young love were caught on surveillance camera at the Genest youth detention centre in London, and the young woman, Terri-Lynne McClintic, would confess a few days later to abducting the girl, Victoria (Tori) Stafford, April 8, 2009.
The lawyer for the man, Michael Rafferty, has suggested that abduction was McClintic's idea and his client was a horrified bystander who didn't see the killing, but agreed to help clean up.
Yet through a timeline of phone calls and showing of Genest surveillance video, the Crown painted a picture Wednesday of Rafferty keen on keeping in touch with McClintic and showing no signs of being horrified with her behaviour.
The two contacted each other at least 97 times through cellphone calls or texts between April 9 and May 19, the day McClintic and Rafferty were arrested. He visited her once at Woodstock courthouse when she had a hearing on an unrelated charge and visited her twice in Genest while she was in custody on that charge.
Rafferty, 31, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual assault causing bodily harm.
McClintic, 21, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received a life sentence in April 2010.
She's admitted to luring Tori to Rafferty's car while the girl was walking home from school. She testified Rafferty drove the three of them to the Mount Forest area, and raped Tori.
McClintic first told police Rafferty killed Tori, but at his trial, accepted the blame for dealing the fatal hammer blows.
Four days after Tori's abduction, McClintic was arrested on a breach of community supervision relating to another offence and was sent to Genest.
The detention centre doesn't usually allow friends to visit, Kerri-Lee Cushing-Mitchener, a program manager at Genest, testified.
But McClintic had said her mother was gravely ill and sometimes she had trouble reaching her. So she asked if Rafferty, a family friend, could visit.
Rafferty got approval to visit April 27, and made his first appearance outside the doors May 8.
The detention centre videotapes the visits, but does not audiotape them because of the privacy rights of inmates, Cushing-Mitchener said.
It takes a moment on that first visit, from 7:19 p.m. to 8:18 p.m., for the two to embrace, happening only after McClintic gets up and walks over to Rafferty, motioning with her arms for a hug.
Court was shown a 10-minute clip of the visit, where Rafferty models his clothes and caresses her hair several times. They hold hands across the table and at one point it appears she's kissing his hands. They share a couple of hugs before he leaves.
In her earlier testimony, McClintic said the two spoke about what to do if police started asking her questions.
"I said that I would take the fall for everything," she testified.
The second visit lasted from 6:52 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. May 12.
In about a six-minute clip shown to court, Rafferty looks like he is showing off his biceps, picks her up and tries to teach her to lift him up.
He rolls up a magazine and pretends it's a telescope to view her. Laughing, she knocks it away.
In her testimony, McClintic described her last visit with Rafferty at Genest. She told him again she'd take the fall.
"I remember touching his face and he looked up and almost laughed at me and said, 'You'll do anything for a little bit of love, eh,' " she testified.
Earlier that same day, McClintic met police at the Woodstock courthouse, where her hearing on the other matter continued, and agreed to a polygraph test.
On May 15, police interviewed Rafferty to prepare for the McClintic polygraph. Eight minutes after the interview, Rafferty called McClintic at the detention centre.
On May 19, McClintic confessed to her role in the abduction and Rafferty was arrested.
Crown attorney Kevin Gowdey told court Wednesday "the end is near in terms of the Crown's case."
That case has tried to unravel a tangling and tumble of events, phone calls, BlackBerry messages and dates between Rafferty and more than a dozen different girlfriends from April 8 to May 19, 2009.
Through Det. Const. Gord Johnson, the Crown presented a timeline of some of the major events and cellphone calls and texts, minus most of the ones involving Rafferty's many dates, to jurors Wednesday.
April 8, 2009, was a typically busy day for Rafferty's BlackBerry. Noticeable were the gaps in outgoing calls from 2:54 p.m. to 4:18 p.m, just before and after Tori was abducted, and from 5:05 p.m. to 7:46 p.m., which matches the time McClintic said Tori was raped and killed.
Under cross-examination by Rafferty's lawyer Dirk Derstine, Johnson acknowledged that the phone records showed gaps in usage many other days as well.
Here are the two videos from his visits to TLM at the detention centre....... for someone who the defense suggested was horrified when he walked back to the car to find TLM had bludgeoned Tori to death, he doesn't appeared scared of her nor in the least bit upset or horrified.....
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/raffe...80306.html
Christie Blatchford strikes again.....
LONDON, Ont. – For just a minute, there in the visitors lounge at the Genest Detention Centre on the evening of May 12, 2009, it looked as though Terri-Lynne McClintic and Michael Rafferty were slow dancing.
Their arms were wrapped around one another; their feet shuffled just a bit.
Thirty-four days before, though there has been quibbling over the details ever since, the two had presided at the burial of the little girl named Victoria (Tori) Stafford.
So there they were, now dancing or almost dancing, on that child’s grave.
More: http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012...ord-death/
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