A cardiologist of Quebec charged with two counts of murder in the first degree admitted that he stabbed her two children in 2009, but it is not an act of premeditated claims.
Guy Turcotte defence team made the admission Monday, in the double murder trial in Saint-Jér?me cardiologist.
In a statement filed by his defence lawyer Pierre Poupart, Turcotte admits that he committed an unlawful act and that it caused the death of her two children.
Olivier (5) and Anne-Sophie (3) was stabbed to death by their father, he admits. (CBC)But Turcotte of plans to fight against the claim that the murders were premeditated.
Poupart told jurors they will determine the State of mind Turcotte at the time of the crimes, and if he knew what he did.
Children Turcotte has - of five years and three years Anne-Sophie - Olivier were found stabbed to death on 21 February 2009, inside a House of their father leased in the Laurentians.
Turcotte was also found in the House, under a bed, after he ingested washer.
He was charged with and found fit to stand trial in an investigation preliminary hearing last year.
Turcotte sobbed in court as counsel for the Attorney General Claudia Carbonneau describes the details of the double murder.
Crime scene technician gave jurors a view inside the House: two knives, two blood-stained, a container of windshield washer near vacuum in a bathroom and vomits on the floor.
It had mother Turcotte, Margaret Fournier testified Monday on the last telephone conversation with his son until the children were killed.
Turcotte, cardiologist, faces two counts of first degree murder. (Canadian Press)Turcotte deplored his marriage missed to Isabelle Gaston, whom he had separated a month earlier.
Fournier said his son was depressed and told him that Gaston was cheating on him.
"There lasts for weeks," Fournier cited his son saying. She said that he was told "it was in my home in my bed."
His mother advised him to look forward, but his son does not seem to hear. But then he said something that struck Fournier as characters.
"I love you, I tell dad I love it," Fournier said, remembering his son repeating these words repeated during the discussion of one hour.
"When I heard this speech, I was afraid that he would take his own life," she said.
He had been drinking fearful, Fournier was driving to his son on the night, but her husband said to wait.
Fournier has arrived the next day to find no grandchildren in view, locked doors and shades drawn to the single-family in a rural district in Piedmont.
"Maybe my husband always had hope [things were OK], but I had no hope at all the", she testified.
Fournier cooling 911 call pleaded with police rushing to the rented house was played in court late Monday, causing some tears more Turcotte.
If found guilty, he could face life imprisonment.
About 30 witnesses are expected to testify at the trial, including the police, ambulance technicians and family.
Gaston, a doctor herself, should also take the position.
The trial is expected to last between six and eight weeks.
Police band access of blocks of a house in Piedmont, Que., where the bodies of two young children were found on February 21, 2009. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press) Records of the Canadian Press return to the accessibility links