A ‘lifetime of abuse’ led Dallas Ly to snap and stab his mother inside a Leslieville apartment in 2022 but he never intended to kill her, his defence lawyer said during closing arguments at his murder trial 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.
Last week, Ly told the jury his mother would beat him with shoes, her fists and a wooden backscratcher that left scars. She would also often call him stupid and lazy, he testified. 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.
While prosecutors conceded to the jury that Ly had indeed been subject to “severe childhood abuse,” they have called into question whether he’d suffered from the condition prior to the homicide and suggested it possible that Ly had developed PTSD as a result of the homicide.
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