A key Crown witness in an Ottawa murder case testified Monday she was pressured by the Crown to stick to her original drunken statement to detectives under threat of prosecution for lying to police if she changed it once sober.
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In her videotaped statement to police, shown to the jury Monday, Walker put all the blame on the accused.Article content In fact, she said Abdifatah Osman, who ended up dead with a shot in the chest and back of the head, and his friends were the ones threatening Campbell. The neighbourhood is dense and was packed with children that day, but none were wounded from stray bullets that penetrated a home with children inside. The bullets hit the toy box, their fish tank and the family couch.
The second count of attempted murder is because Campbell is accused of pointing a handgun at Walker, who testified Monday that was also not true.Article content In cross-examination, Walker also said to the jury that after the Dec. 6 meeting at the courthouse, Sgt. Dan Brennan, one of the detectives at the meeting, asked her in the elevator if she had talked to Campbell’s lawyer and warned that if she had, it could cause problems with the Crown’s case. “Yes, because I wanted to tell the truth,” she testified. “I wanted to come in and say what actually happened when I was level-headed.
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