The lawyer of representing the spouse of Gabriel Wortman says there are good reasons why she will not face cross\u002Dexamination.
James Lockyer said Thursday his client, Lisa Banfield, should not be retraumatized by lawyers who seem determined to explore conspiracy theories about what happened April 18-19, 2020, when Gabriel Wortman killed 22 people during a 13-hour rampage across Nova Scotia.
Lockyer said the purpose of raising questions about Banfield’s whereabouts would be to challenge her credibility and suggest that she may have spent the night elsewhere, which he says is absurd. The inquiry has heard evidence that Banfield, whose relationship with Wortman spanned 19 years, was the victim of a controlling, abusive man who repeatedly beat her. Banfield has also told the RCMP and the commission that she was beaten and threatened immediately before her husband started killing people in Portapique.Article content
“As much as we’re in a different kind of legal proceeding, we’re still in a proceeding where we have to have reliable evidence, and part of having reliable evidence is allowing it to be tested,” McCulloch said. “That’s largely not going to happen.”Article content
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