A ‘lifetime of abuse’ led Dallas Ly to snap and repeatedly stab his mother inside their Leslieville apartment in 2022 but he never intended to kill her, his defence lawyers argued during his murder trial in Toronto on Thursday.
Ly, 23, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of his mother, Tien Ly. Tien died after being stabbed multiple times at a residence at Carlaw Avenue and Dundas Street East residence in March 2022.
“Mr, Ly admitted from the beginning of this trial that he caused his mother’s death,” defence co-counsel, Jessyca Greenwood, told the jury at the start of Thursday’s closing arguments. “ has never tried to justify what he did, he’s only tried to explain his state of mind.”Over the course of his trial, and in Thursday’s closing arguments, lawyers for Ly have argued that he suffered years of abuse at the hands of Tien, who asserted significant control over her son’s life.
“She was cruel and she abused him,” Greenwood told the jury, adding that, until the spring of 2022, Ly had never fought back against his mother, describing him as a “soft-spoken” and “mild-mannered” individual.On the day of the homicide, Ly testified that he’d expressed a desire to move out of his mother’s house, causing his mother to strike him in the face. In a moment of “fear and overwhelm,” as described by Ly’s lawyers, he stabbed his mother with a hunting knife pulled from his backpack.
Ly then said he panicked, decapitating his mother’s corpse before loading it into a shopping cart in garbage bags and attempting to dispose of it on the nearby roadside.
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