Trent Butt is accused of the first-degree murder of his daughter Quinn in his Carbonear, N.L., home in April 2016
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A Crown prosecutor says a Newfoundland man murdered his five-year-old daughter in a calculated plan to inflict suffering on her mother, his estranged wife.
Butt testified earlier that he did not remember killing Quinn, but said he found himself over her body and concluded he must have suffocated her.Butt said he decided to take his own life and set fire to his home, leaving a lengthy suicide note in his truck that mostly detailed his frustrations with Gosse.
Crown lawyer Lloyd Strickland pointed to the note, which he described as “rife with hatred” of Gosse, as proof that Butt planned to kill Quinn to keep her from her mother. Both Strickland and Justice Donald Burrage drew attention to Butt’s earlier testimony that he reacted to Quinn’s death by concluding he must have suffocated her, rather than trying to resuscitate her or calling for medical assistance.
“We’ve got a collection of maybes that adds up to a maybe. Maybe he planned to killed Quinn, maybe he didn’t,” Hogan said.In his charge to the jury, Burrage said the evidence had already proven Butt unlawfully killed Quinn, and that jurors must determine whether Butt planned the killing in advance.
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