Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 1, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba The Bernardo Triol Winnipeg free june a9 stoic jury views first of tapes up illustration prosecutor Ray Houlahan shows jurors photos do it Bernardo urges 7 Homka groans As hushed courtroom listens editors caution this report contains graphic trial details that some readers May find parents May want to review the Story before allowing children to read byte Blackwell Canadian press Toronto the sound of an agitated Karla Homolka Whis Pering no and disgust ing filled a hushed courtroom yesterday As jurors at Paul Bernardos murder trial watched the first few minutes of almost four hours of explicit Christmas eve prosecutors say the segment shows Homolka and Bernardo per forming sex acts on her Union 15yearold sister on Christ Mas eve reporters and other spectators were allowed hear not see the first of tapes that Justice Patrick Lesage has called emotional and despite enhancement by an ramp the soundtrack was often Bernardo can be heard whispering instructions such do it Homolka voice sounds increasingly anxious and eventually begins to crack As she i no and i i in his opening statement when the trial prosecutor Ray Hula Han said Bernardo is first shown raping the tape depicts Bernardos Fiancee at the performing Oral sex on Tammy and administering an Anes thetic to keep her knocked Hou Lahan r Lesage told jurors the handed to authorities by Bernardos defence team last will be shown three in the Normal course i would not permit evidence to be repeated just for the Sake of he but he said jurors Are not accustomed to seeing such images and it will be hard for them to mentally assimilate prosecutors say the tapes show Bernardo brutally raping four teen age Leslie Kristen and a woman known Only As Jane Lesage ruled tuesday that report ers and spectators could Only hear the videotapes because Public screening would inflict tremendous emotional and mental injury on victims it want always easy to follow the tape without the crowns description in its opening it would be difficult to know exactly what was going on be tween Bernardo and Bernardo has pleaded not guilty to the murders of Mahaffy and Homolka is serving a 12year prison term for manslaughter in the the Crown says she was beaten and blackmailed into helping also Leslie Mahaffy bowed her head and clutched a tissue to her face As prosecutor Ray Houlahan introduced photographs depicting the girl in sex acts with a naked Ber covered squirms Greet images of horror by Gloria Galloway Canadian press whats pests Birds bothering you the solution Gary a Niagara Region took the stand to describe s accused is Over the body of Leslie he said of on epic Turki is crouched and bound at the the shown later to report included one depicting French in a school sweater and Turtleneck next to a nude who is holding what looks like a a Homolka family video also in the Toronto Sun yesterday published this photo of Karla to with two Black in Hospital in january 1993 after leaving it was entered into evidence produced As evidence yesterday included a segment showing the three Homolka daughters visiting their parents at a hotel in Niagara to celebrate their 25th wed Ding Lovely women three Lovely Bernardo is heard saying from behind the As they pose in front of a look at that i mean the cars another scene shows father Karel Homolka lying on a hotel Call ing out Okay look after my spectators mostly sat quietly through but they gasped at Karel Homolka joke Houlahan also produced three pieces of Black electrical a knife with a 15centimetre two pairs of a Ball of round Silver serving tray and a multicoloured Beaulieu confirmed the items were found in Bernardos rented House in prosecutors say Bernardo strangled Mahaffy and French with an electrical Cord after holding them captive in the House and repeatedly sexually assaulting juror squirmed in his seat and another rubbed a generous hand Over his but mostly the eight men and four women charged with delivering a verdict in Paul Bernardos murder trial remained they watched what the Crown says was the rape of Karla Homolka unconscious the Bernardo and lawyers were the Only ones privy to the visual portion of the tapes after a ruling by Justice Patrick the was played to a packed nobody really needed to see those a 42year old Toronto Man said As he left court the words were the same As those uttered on most rated expletives and crude instructions to perform sexual but this want fiction and the three people on the video we rent the Crown says Bernardo raped Homolka 15yearold before Homolka performed Oral sex on the scene filmed the Crown the prelude to Tammy death from a fatal mix of alcohol and tranquillisers administered by the the segment started with what sounded like breathing and dragging noises and ended with a distraught Homolka saying she though tit was some jurors sat with their hands Over their others stared at the Boyish looking Man in the prisoners Box As the video but they did not and neither did when the tape was set to he put Down the yellow notepad in which he has industriously scribbled since the Start of his trial two weeks leaned Back in his chair and fixed his gaze on his viewing he is accused of first degree murder in the deaths of 14yearold Leslie Mahaffy and 15yearold Kristen videos of the two schoolgirls being raped and sodomized Are expected to be played in the coming before the tapes were those in the spectators gallery registered Little reaction to the Days some appeared to be sleeping when a Large knife and pieces of Black electric Cable were introduced into but they sat in a spellbound silence As the tape some leaning Forward to discern the words amid the scratch and Hiss of the background noise on the it was very 20yearold Jeanne Charette said its scary because he looks so its nauseating just listening to Iii mrs flip 24 Marion place 2332500 mattresses hand made site contour rest with pocket coils double set i Queen set i super 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