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Months after sex-trade worker Jennifer Stewart was axed to death in a Vanier parking lot on Aug. 19, 2010, Adrian Daou confessed to his girlfriend that he was the one who swung the axe until Stewart died face down on Alice Street, court heard Monday.
Daou, a 24-year-old drug dealer and dishwasher who freestyles obsessively, is on trial for first-degree murder in the killing of Stewart, who turned tricks to feed her crack habit.
He was reading newspaper stories about the killing online when he confessed, his former girlfriend testified, adding that Daou routinely lied.
She said Daou first told her he had killed a man over a debt but, after reading the newspaper articles about the killing of 36-year-old Stewart, changed his story, claiming he had killed a woman working the streets in Vanier.
“I thought he was just trying to look tough,”she told court. “I didn’t really believe it. I thought it was a lie.”
It wasn’t the only time that Daou had tried to confess.
In four ever-changing interviews with Ottawa police over two days, Adrian “Mook” Daou, an aspiring rapper looking for fame, claimed that he had killed Stewart, a frail, drug-addled sex-trade worker who weighed only 80 pounds. He told police he wanted to gain enough notoriety to launch his dream career as a “billionaire rap star”.
Police had no solid leads on the case when a suicidal Daou, then in segregation at the Innes Road jail on drug charges and under a psychiatrist’s care, confessed after Stewart’s body was found face-down in an Alice Street parking lot.
But, as the jury has heard, he told wildly different versions in his confession to police.
He initially got the weapon wrong and the court heard last week that police had yet to interview the man they believe dumped the bloody axe.
The trial, before Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger, continues Tuesday at the Elgin Street courthouse. Daou has pleaded not guilty.
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Daou, a 24-year-old drug dealer and dishwasher who freestyles obsessively, is on trial for first-degree murder in the killing of Stewart, who turned tricks to feed her crack habit.
He was reading newspaper stories about the killing online when he confessed, his former girlfriend testified, adding that Daou routinely lied.
She said Daou first told her he had killed a man over a debt but, after reading the newspaper articles about the killing of 36-year-old Stewart, changed his story, claiming he had killed a woman working the streets in Vanier.
“I thought he was just trying to look tough,”she told court. “I didn’t really believe it. I thought it was a lie.”
It wasn’t the only time that Daou had tried to confess.
In four ever-changing interviews with Ottawa police over two days, Adrian “Mook” Daou, an aspiring rapper looking for fame, claimed that he had killed Stewart, a frail, drug-addled sex-trade worker who weighed only 80 pounds. He told police he wanted to gain enough notoriety to launch his dream career as a “billionaire rap star”.
Police had no solid leads on the case when a suicidal Daou, then in segregation at the Innes Road jail on drug charges and under a psychiatrist’s care, confessed after Stewart’s body was found face-down in an Alice Street parking lot.
But, as the jury has heard, he told wildly different versions in his confession to police.
He initially got the weapon wrong and the court heard last week that police had yet to interview the man they believe dumped the bloody axe.
The trial, before Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger, continues Tuesday at the Elgin Street courthouse. Daou has pleaded not guilty.
gdimmock@ottawacitizen.com
www.twitter.com/crimegarden
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