Duncan Sinclair stalked and fatally stabbed his mother 11 times in the food court where he worked in Toronto’s PATH subway system two and a half years ago, a jury said Tuesday at the start of his first-degree murder trial.
On April 10, 2019, Sinclair, then 19, made two calls to two Fast Fresh Foods locations trying to determine where her mother, Rae Cara Carrington, was working, Crown attorney Pam Santora said in her statement. opening.
The mother of eight was working a restaurant location in downtown PATH, “trying to get her life back on track after a complicated separation from her husband,” Santora said. Wearing black-rimmed glasses and thick short black hair, Sinclair listened to the prosecutor sitting next to his attorney, Joelle Klein.
One of the seven video surveillance cameras captured Sinclair going to and from the restaurant shortly before 7 pm, before approaching an employee and asking for his mother, “putting his face clearly in front of the camera,” the prosecutor continued.
Sinclair found her mother in the kitchen prep area, spoke to her, and then pulled out a large purple knife that she brought with her, Santora said. He then chased after his mother and stabbed her 10 times. When she fell to the ground, he appeared to leave the area before returning “for a final blow just to be sure,” the Crown’s attorney said.
The lethal encounter lasted only nine minutes. The 51-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:17 pm She died from 11 separate stab wounds that fractured three ribs, punctured her liver, kidney, lungs and heart.
Four witnesses who saw the surveillance video, including Sinclair’s former employer and two of his brothers, will identify him as the killer, the jury heard. While the prosecution does not have to establish a motive, Santora told jurors that the Crown “will present evidence to help you understand why a son would want to kill his mother.”
At the time of his death, Sinclair’s father, Paul Sinclair, was in police custody as a result of allegations of domestic and child abuse for more than 30 years, abuse directed against Carrington and the couple’s eight children. Duncan Sinclair was their fourth child.
According to Santora, “the children were isolated, did not attend school or interact with the community in any of the normal forms of childhood. They did not receive regular medical care and were taught to distrust the authorities. “They also moved 26 times. While Carrington worked to support the family, her husband stayed home” and his control over the house was unshakable. “
Paul Sinclair was convicted of 12 crimes related to child abuse on March 18, 2020, the jury heard.
But Duncan Sinclair and one of his brothers painted a different picture of their home life on the police. Jurors will hear a statement hearing what Sinclair thought of his mother, along with “his idealized vision of his father and the lengths he was willing to go to” to prevent him from regaining custody of his three minor children. Santora said.
Duncan Sinclair fled the scene and was arrested at a YMCA in Midland, Ontario. two days later, after an employee noticed he was Googling a murder in Toronto and contacted police, he said. The blood on the jeans contained his mother’s DNA profile. And while the murder weapon was never found, a colorful set of knives in his home was missing a large purple knife, the Crown attorney added.
The trial in downtown Toronto Superior Court against Judge Anne Molloy continues Wednesday.
The PATH underground network in downtown Toronto was also where Rosemarie Junor was stabbed to death at a Shoppers Drug Mart in December 2015. Rohinie Bisesar was not held criminally responsible for Junor’s murder.
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