Conspiracy of Brothers by Mick Lowe

Author:Mick Lowe [Lowe, Mick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-81317-6
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 2013-04-30T00:00:00+00:00

XXVIII

AFTER A THREE-DAY RECESS for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, court resumed on the morning of Tuesday, October 9, and Jamie Hanna continued the Crown evidence. Bill Matiyek’s girlfriend repeated the evidence she’d given at the preliminary, describing a night of heavy drinking, the slap she’d received from Fred Jones, and how she’d moved to another table.

When a group of fifteen or twenty men suddenly entered the hotel, she had told Cathy Cotgrave to call the police, and then gone back over to Bill’s table. “I sat on his right side.… Rick Sauvé came over to the table and he whispered in Bill’s left ear and he then turned to me and said, ‘Chick, get the fuck away from the table.’ I looked at Bill and Bill agreed with him and said, ‘Yes. I think you had better leave,’ and he said, ‘Good-bye,’ and I left.”

Rick Sauvé had remained at the table, standing to Bill’s left, she recalled. About two or three seconds later she’d heard the first shot.

As he had at the preliminary, Howard Kerbel tried unsuccessfully to get a description from Hanna of the man who’d sat down with her and the old man at her table. She couldn’t remember what the newcomer had looked like, what he had said, or whether he had introduced himself. She did remember that the gunman was left-handed, however, and she had had a clear view of him. He was roughly six feet tall with a blond beard and a blond moustache.

Hanna told Jack Grossman that she was certain that Rick Sauvé was not the gunman, and she repeated that she’d last seen Sauvé standing to Bill’s left. Grossman doubtless hoped that the jury would pick up on this inconsistency. Sauvé had now been seen in three different places or positions at once, by four major Crown witnesses. Gayle Thompson had put him one chair away to Bill’s right during or moments before the shooting, while Cathy Cotgrave and Sue Foote had seen him sitting to Bill’s immediate left. Jamie Hanna, too, had seen him on Bill’s left, but standing, not sitting.

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