Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 20, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free May 1995 a13 lurid tale not proven judge jury add to keep open mind after Bernardo trial address editors caution this report contains graphic trial details that some readers May find parents May want to review the Story before showing children to read byte Blackwell Canadian press Toronto jurors in Paul Bernardos murder trial were warned yesterday not to draw conclusions from a chilling Crown statement that alleged two school girls were repeatedly viciously sodomized and Justice Patrick Lesage reminded the jury the graphic opening state ment was merely a guide to the prosecutions keep an open mind and absorb the evidence As it is introduced to Lesage told jurors after hear ing Legal arguments that cant be re ported because the panel of eight men and four women want Lesage also urged them to ignore a series of rhetorical questions posed by prosecutor Ray who told jurors hear and see detailed evidence of degrading acts inflicted on Leslie and Kristen in their final Houlahan had said the jurors will View videotapes of shocking sexual sadism and must ask themselves who directed the crimes allegedly depicted Bernardo or his you should not begin your role As jurors by answering rhetorical questions posed by the the judge you sit and absorb the you do not answer questions at this the intense emotion generated by Houlahan opening address was absent yesterday from the downtown where about half of 118 Public seats were the first retired cop Gary displayed a see through acrylic Model of Bernardos two Storey Lakeside House in Ca designed so the top floors can be lifted off to reveal the base Greg a crime scene craftsman with Toronto produced maps of Southern Ontario and Catharines and a floor plan of the Bernardo House that will be used to guide he also introduced maps and a rial photographs of where Mahaffy and Lake Gib where her Cemen encased body parts were Schofield showed diagrams of the Church parking lot where the Crown alleges Bernardo kidnapped French and the spot where her shaven body was images of the evidence showed up on close circuit to screens throughout the including one inside the prisoners often rested his Chin in his hand As he during he chatted with defence Law yers and a he faces two counts of first de Gree murder and seven other in a Deal struck with Crown Law yers before police were aware videotapes Homolka pleaded Rosen addresses Lesage As Bernardo left listens jurors warned to ignore crowns guilty to manslaughter in the Mahaffy and French deaths and was sentenced to 12 years in the prosecutor depicted Ber Nardo As a domineering monster Bent on depravity and self Ratific who beat his wife and forced her to help fulfil his sick he wanted to build a new Home with a Dungeon some Day so he could keep a sex slave Houlahan said in his opening Houlahan has taken pains to por tray As an Houlahan chilling statement defence counsel John Rosen abused accomplice who was Black mailed by Bernardo for her part in an incident where the couple Alleg edly drugged her sister and sexually assaulted Houlahan said Tammy was offered to Bernardo As a Christmas present after he repeatedly expressed interest in hav ing sex with Tammy died after the pair drugged and raped the said the he said Bernardo threatened to expose to Mpelkas role in Tammy death if she tried to leave him or didst comply in the Mahaffy and French the victims families struggled often in vain to control their emotions As horrific allegations poured out on the opening Day of the Mahaffy was kidnapped from her own backyard in Burlington in june blindfolded and taken to the Bernardo the Crown she was sodomized and forced to perform Oral sex on the court was Bernardo eventually began to worry shed identify him and strangled her with an electrical Cord while she held a Teddy Bear offered by Homolka As a Houlahan the next Bernardo sawed Mahaffy Corpse into 10 pieces and encased them in Cement before throwing the blocks into a nearby court they were hauled out by police two weeks on the Day Bernardo and Homolka were in the Spring of the accused had been telling Homolka that he wanted to Kidnap another Young girl for use As a sex Houlahan the girl he selected was whom he spotted walking Home from school in her plaid jurors Homolka helped lure French to their car by asking for i said like French was forced to perform videotaped acts of Degra Dation that included Oral and vaginal the prosecutor she was also forced to Call him Mas Ter and Tell him she loved said but by her third Day of she dared to show a Lack of interest in Bernardos rap music and out Wardly defied his sexual demands by some things Are Worth dying the Crown attorney Bernardo strangled her with the same Cord that killed Hou Lahan truck kills Wal Kathon organizer Canadian press a woman participating in a Royal Canadian legion Wal Kathon died thursday after a i Landrun on the Nola was walking with another woman on 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