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When Adrian Daou confessed to the 2010 axe-killing of a Vanier prostitute, the 24-year-old aspiring rapper originally told police: “I kept it to myself.”
But in a followup interview the next day, Feb. 26, 2013, the accused killer changed his story, claiming he had told four friends about the night he killed Jennifer Stewart, 36, in a Vanier parking lot.
Det. John Monette testified Tuesday at Daou’s first-degree murder trial that police were able to track down the people Daou said he told, but the jury hasn’t heard their testimony. One of the friends, whose street name was Mad Dog, has since died, court heard.
In a videotaped confession shown in court, Daou said he hatched the murder plot to launch a hip-hop career and that Stewart, walking the streets alone, was his “perfect score.”
The detective wasn’t convinced right away that Daou, a drug-dealer and dishwasher, was telling the truth.
Prosecutor Tim Wightman asked him why and the detective said he’d heard false confessions in the past and wanted to make sure an “innocent man” wasn’t confessing to a murder he didn’t commit.
The detective testified that he later concluded Daou was telling the truth because of a “couple of points” that only the killer would know — notably where Stewart’s body was found, and the location of some of the wounds.
Daou did not detail some of the severe wounds the jury has heard about and when he first revealed the murder weapon, he got it wrong, initially saying he used a military knife. The accused also re-enacted the crime for police in an interview room, and laughed as he started violently swinging a cardboard tube at a chair as if it were an axe.
“I didn’t do it for fun. I was really f—ing angry at the whole world,” he told the detective.
He told police that Stewart kept her arms down and didn’t try to protect herself during the attack, but the jury has heard that she suffered severe wounds to her wrists as she tried in vain to defend herself.
Daou, who has pleaded not guilty, also told police that he accidentally struck himself in the foot in the attack but suffered no injuries. He also said that when he got home he was surprised he didn’t have any blood spatter on him.
He told police that he wore a mask, gloves, and eye goggles during the attack. He said he lured Stewart to a parking lot on Alice Street under the pretext of a drug deal before surprising her from behind.
He at first told police that he put his clothes and axe in the garbage, but in a second interview said his father put the murder weapon in the garbage.
In the video shown in court, Daou is seen and heard “freestyle” rapping in the police interview room whenever left alone.
He said he felt “powerful and alive” after the killing and even though he was paranoid that he was going to get caught, he told police that he returned to the scene of the crime on the other side of midnight on Aug. 20, 2010 to see if anyone was looking around.
He also told police that he’s haunted by Stewart’s “ghost”.
The jury trial, presided by Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger, continues this afternoon.
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But in a followup interview the next day, Feb. 26, 2013, the accused killer changed his story, claiming he had told four friends about the night he killed Jennifer Stewart, 36, in a Vanier parking lot.
Det. John Monette testified Tuesday at Daou’s first-degree murder trial that police were able to track down the people Daou said he told, but the jury hasn’t heard their testimony. One of the friends, whose street name was Mad Dog, has since died, court heard.
In a videotaped confession shown in court, Daou said he hatched the murder plot to launch a hip-hop career and that Stewart, walking the streets alone, was his “perfect score.”
The detective wasn’t convinced right away that Daou, a drug-dealer and dishwasher, was telling the truth.
Prosecutor Tim Wightman asked him why and the detective said he’d heard false confessions in the past and wanted to make sure an “innocent man” wasn’t confessing to a murder he didn’t commit.
The detective testified that he later concluded Daou was telling the truth because of a “couple of points” that only the killer would know — notably where Stewart’s body was found, and the location of some of the wounds.
Daou did not detail some of the severe wounds the jury has heard about and when he first revealed the murder weapon, he got it wrong, initially saying he used a military knife. The accused also re-enacted the crime for police in an interview room, and laughed as he started violently swinging a cardboard tube at a chair as if it were an axe.
“I didn’t do it for fun. I was really f—ing angry at the whole world,” he told the detective.
He told police that Stewart kept her arms down and didn’t try to protect herself during the attack, but the jury has heard that she suffered severe wounds to her wrists as she tried in vain to defend herself.
Daou, who has pleaded not guilty, also told police that he accidentally struck himself in the foot in the attack but suffered no injuries. He also said that when he got home he was surprised he didn’t have any blood spatter on him.
He told police that he wore a mask, gloves, and eye goggles during the attack. He said he lured Stewart to a parking lot on Alice Street under the pretext of a drug deal before surprising her from behind.
He at first told police that he put his clothes and axe in the garbage, but in a second interview said his father put the murder weapon in the garbage.
In the video shown in court, Daou is seen and heard “freestyle” rapping in the police interview room whenever left alone.
He said he felt “powerful and alive” after the killing and even though he was paranoid that he was going to get caught, he told police that he returned to the scene of the crime on the other side of midnight on Aug. 20, 2010 to see if anyone was looking around.
He also told police that he’s haunted by Stewart’s “ghost”.
The jury trial, presided by Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger, continues this afternoon.
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