Witness heard accused admit to killing his ex-wife for cheating, Ontario court hears

Soula Berdoussis thought she had travel upon an mishap connected the day of Aug. 26, 2022, erstwhile she drove down Bathurst Street adjacent the Sherman field and saw a chaotic scene.

A operator for “Circle of Care,” which transports radical to aesculapian appointments, Berdoussis said she was successful a unreserved connected her mode to prime up a client, erstwhile she noticed cars each implicit the spot and radical lasting connected the road.

“I started honking and past I saw bodies, 2 bodies, and past I stopped successful beforehand of 1 body. One was connected the road, the caput was connected the sidewalk and the different was connected the sidewalk person to the guardrail,” she testified successful a Toronto courtroom Wednesday.

Berdoussis is 1 of astir a twelve civilian witnesses who person testified astatine the trial for 48-year-old Godfrey Sig-Od, charged with 2 counts of first-degree execution successful narration to his ex-wife Elvie Sig-Od, 44, and his girl Angelica Sig-Od, 20.

Sig-Od pleaded blameworthy to manslaughter astatine the opening of the proceedings Tuesday, but adjunct Crown authoritative Rochelle Liberman told jurors that the Crown was proceeding connected the first-degree execution complaint due to the fact that the grounds volition amusement that Godfrey Sig-Od intended to termination his ex-wife and daughter. The evidence, the Crown contends, volition amusement that the killings were planned and deliberate.

During her testimony, Berdoussis recounted however she jumped from her minivan, conscionable successful beforehand of a metallic Lexus wherever the pistillate was lying connected the crushed due to the fact that she hoped she could assistance 1 of the women she saw bleeding.

“I got to the assemblage and I looked astatine her face. She had marks connected her look and to me, it didn’t look similar an accident,” she said.

Berdoussis said she past looked astatine the different assemblage and could spot a achromatic garment implicit the person’s caput and 2 wounds successful the back.

“The feline came implicit to maine and I said thing to the effect of, ‘What the f…? This is not an accident,’ or, ‘What the hellhole happened here? This is not an accident,'” she recalled.

Berdoussis said helium replied, “He said to me, ‘I killed her due to the fact that she cheated?’ and past helium said it again, “‘I killed her due to the fact that she cheated connected me.'”

She testified “And I made a remark, ‘What? you killed her due to the fact that she cheated?'”

Berdoussis said she saw his achromatic shoes and achromatic socks and past looked astatine his hands. “I thought, ‘This is erstwhile I die.’ I got up and my full beingness flashed earlier maine successful 2 seconds. I got up and I said, ‘Don’t you situation move.’ He wasn’t moving. I deliberation astatine 1 constituent helium said, ‘OK, OK”.

She said she asked bystanders if the antheral had changeable the 2 women. She said they told her, “He stabbed them”.

A abbreviated clip later, six oregon 7 constabulary cruisers arrived astatine the scene.

“One constabulary car came and stopped successful beforehand of me. I said, ‘Officer, helium conscionable confessed. He said, ‘I killed her due to the fact that she cheated.””

Berdoussis said arsenic soon arsenic constabulary arrived, her assemblage started trembling and told the assemblage that what she witnessed was precise hard to see.

During cross-examination, defence lawyer Daniel Brodsky asked if she saw the man. “I was concentrating connected helping the idiosyncratic successful beforehand of me. My main extremity was to prevention that idiosyncratic due to the fact that I did deliberation helium was inactive breathing,” she said.

The proceedings continues.