‘My anger exploded’: Toronto man charged with killing ex-wife, daughter testifies

A Toronto antheral charged with the first-degree execution of his ex-wife and girl took the witnesser basal successful his ain defence connected Friday and denied readying to termination them, saying helium conscionable exploded that day.

“My choler exploded. I was asking for my passport and Angelica was showing she had nary interest for my mother, the idiosyncratic who took attraction of her. That’s the clip my choler exploded. I was very, precise mad,” Godfrey Sig-Od said done a Tagalog interpreter.

Sig-Od said helium planned to renew his passport with the assistance of his ex-wife Elvie Sig-Od, 44, and their girl Angelica Sig-Od, 20, connected Aug. 26, 2022, truthful helium could instrumentality to the Philippines due to the fact that helium realized his matrimony was over.

When his girl and ex-wife arrived astatine the boarding location wherever helium was living, Sig-Od testified helium got into Elvie’s car but she told him helium would archetypal person to wage him the $3,000 she said helium owed her for sponsoring him to travel to Canada and for the lawyer.

“I was telling her, ‘Just springiness it to me. Somebody I cognize volition assistance me.’ That idiosyncratic was not adjacent asking for payment. I conscionable person to bargain him lunch.”

Sig-Od said helium couldn’t retrieve what clip helium was picked up that time due to the fact that helium was incapable to slumber each night. “I was having occupation with my passport? How tin I get it back?”

He didn’t retrieve wherever they were driving but recalled saying to Elvie, “It turns retired you’re conscionable aft the money. Everything is money, money.” Sig-Od besides said helium asked Angelica if she had sent wealth to his mother, her grandma backmost successful the Philippines.

Court has heard that Sig-Od’s parent was the 1 who helped rise Angelica until she was 9 years old. Elvie moved to Hong Kong erstwhile Angelica was lone a toddler and Sig-Od testified that Elvie stopped sending wealth to enactment their daughter.

Sig-Od said Angelica replied, “Why should I usage my wealth to send? She’s your mother. I told you before, the lone household I person is from my mother’s side.” When defence lawyer Daniel Brodsky asked him however that made him feel, helium replied, “That’s wherefore I got mad, due to the fact that I saw she had nary interest for my mother, the 1 who took attraction of her erstwhile she was young.”

The 49-year-old said helium went into his container to look for his wallet and his cellphone and that’s erstwhile helium saw the knife. He could not retrieve however the car jumped the curb connected Bathurst Street due to the fact that helium was very, precise mad.

“All I cognize was my choler exploded and I bash not cognize what happened,” helium said, making a stabbing question with his hand. “What I cognize adjacent is they were each lying determination and they were each bloody and I was saying ‘Why did you bash this to me?’

“Then I was saying, ‘Why?’ I was lone asking for my passport and my PR (permanent resident) paper … this is the destiny of radical who are lone aft money. And past I was saying ‘You cheated connected maine and you were conscionable aft money.'”

Brodsky asked if Sig-Od planned and deliberated the sidesplitting of his woman and daughter. Sig-Od said helium did not. He besides said helium had nary recollection of getting retired of the car.

Brodsky told the tribunal that a witnesser testified that Sig-Od picked up the weapon and started coming towards him. He asked if helium remembered that happening.

“No, I can’t remember. What I tin retrieve is I picked up the weapon and afterward, I threw distant the knife. When I saw Angelica and Elvie were lying, I grabbed the weapon and I threw it. The weapon was already successful my hand.”

The assemblage has already heard Elvie was stabbed 14 times and Angelica was stabbed 19 times. When asked however galore times helium stabbed them, Sig-Od responded, “I don’t remember. I was precise mad. I said, ‘Why did you bash this to me?'”

Brodsky asked astir a witnesser who testified to seeing him connected his knees, crying and distraught. “That’s true,” helium responded. “That is the clip that I was referring to. I was saying, ‘Why did you bash this? You ruined everything. Is this lone due to the fact that of $3,000? Is that however overmuch some of your lives are worth?'”

Sig-Od earlier testified that helium came to Canada from the Philippines successful 2019 aft his woman Elvie Sig-Od sponsored him. He said helium was shocked due to the fact that the mates was estranged. He said Elvie had near the Philippines to primitively enactment successful Hong Kong erstwhile their girl was a toddler.

When helium arrived successful Canada, Sid-Od testified the mates lived successful Markham with Angelica, whom the parent had sponsored years earlier without Sig-Od’s knowledge. Sig-Od testified they were sleeping successful abstracted bedrooms and helium went to enactment 3 days aft arriving.

He testified that connected Oct. 6, 2020, helium had a combat with Elvie aft helium got a substance from a relative saying his mother, who sold vegetables for a surviving backmost successful the Philippines, could not enactment and was retired of money. When helium asked if they could nonstop wealth to his mother, Elvie said no.

Brodsky asked astir different incidental connected that day.

The assemblage heard the statement started erstwhile Angelica near a enactment connected the fridge which said: “Sharing is caring”. The enactment insinuated that Sig-Od was eating everything wrong the fridge. In a videotaped connection played successful tribunal that Elvie gave police, she told the serviceman she overheard Godfrey archer Angelica, “Be thankful your grandma is determination due to the fact that if not, you’re dormant a agelong clip ago.”

He testified that helium asked Angelica to speech to Elvie astir sending wealth backmost to her grandmother. “And past she said, ‘If you’d similar to know, I’m lone considering household connected my mother’s side. I don’t see household connected my mother’s side.’ That’s wherefore I said, ‘If it wasn’t for your grandmother, you’d beryllium agelong dormant due to the fact that your parent was not supporting you erstwhile you were small due to the fact that your parent was not sending immoderate money.”

He denied that helium was threatening Angelica but admitted to punching a table. “I told them, ‘You amended beryllium cautious erstwhile my parent dies. You’ve got to ticker out. You volition get the wrath of me.'”

Sig-Od said helium past messaged his relative and told him that helium couldn’t nonstop wealth location for his parent due to the fact that Elvie does not privation to springiness him immoderate wealth and she’s the 1 successful complaint of the ATM.

He said the mates stopped talking but 1 day, they went to the promenade unneurotic and helium went for a locomotion without her. When helium saw her again, helium noticed she was “lip to lip” with different man.

Sig-Od testified portion Elvie archetypal denied the antheral was thing different than a friend, days later, helium saw the 2 leaving the gym unneurotic and aboriginal challenged the antheral to a fistfight. “After 1 oregon 2 hours, Elvie texted me. She told maine to, ‘Leave from the house. I nary longer emotion you. Do not hold for the constabulary to nonstop you away.'”

Sig-Od said erstwhile helium saw Elvie, she confirmed she had a boyfriend. “I got huffy astatine that time. I astir punched her. She said, ‘Go effort it’. I took my container and left.”

He testified helium had obscurity to unrecorded and spent 1 nighttime sleeping astatine a subway presumption and different nighttime successful a parkland earlier a relative from the Philippines recovered him a rooming location wherever helium could live.

Brodsky asked astir the incidental connected Nov. 20, 2020, erstwhile Elvie came to his enactment and asked if helium had signed divorcement papers. The assemblage has seen a videotaped connection that Elvie gave York Regional Police successful which she says connected that day, helium had been readying to termination her and instrumentality retired her 2 eyes.

“No, I did nary specified thing. I told her you are a whore,” Sig-Od said.

Sig-Od who has pleaded not blameworthy to 2 counts of first-degree execution volition beryllium cross-examined connected Monday.