Murder trial begins for Scarborough man accused of beating girlfriend to death

Carland Walker and Nabila Aminzadah had been making love for 2 years erstwhile paramedics were called to nan basement flat wherever Walker lived pinch his relative to find Aminzadah lying connected her backmost successful Walker’s bedroom, her eyes swollen shut, pinch marks each complete her assemblage including cuts and puncture wounds to her back.

At nan opening time of Carland Walker’s first-degree murder trial, adjunct Crown lawyer Beverley Olesko told nan assemblage successful her opening reside that Walker tried to plead blameworthy to nan lesser offence of manslaughter. Olesko explained nan Crown rejected nan plea and was proceeding pinch a proceedings connected nan complaint of first-degree murder.

“This lawsuit isn’t astir whether he inflicted nan injuries which caused her to die. He did. It will beryllium admitted successful an agreed connection of facts tomorrow. What this proceedings is astir is what he intended erstwhile he caused nan injuries,” Olesko explained.

“His intent to origin her decease while forcibly confining her meaning she couldn’t get distant aliases get thief would make him blameworthy of first-degree murder.”

The Crown said it’s expected nan assemblage will perceive from Walker’s brother, who called 911 aft Carland came asking for thief because he thought his woman was dead. When he went into his brother’s bedroom, he didn’t find a beat and started CPR earlier calling 911.

Olesko said firefighters and paramedics are besides expected to attest astir what they saw. Police will opportunity Walker primitively told them that Aminzadah showed up astatine his flat successful nan mediate of nan nighttime and collapsed connected his floor. But video grounds will show he is not telling nan truth.

Forensic investigators will besides attest astir what they recovered connected nan level successful nan chamber — an HDMI cable, a surgery broom instrumentality and 2 darts. “The Crown will opportunity that was utilized to origin immoderate of nan injuries,” Olesko told nan jury, adding they besides recovered packing portion pinch hairsbreadth and humor connected it.

A forensic pathologist is expected to attest that Aminzadah, who was 36 years old, died of aggregate blunt unit and crisp unit injuries She besides suffered complete 100 punctures to her back.

“He forcibly confined her successful that chamber and utilized packing portion to do that. He intended to origin her decease aliases astatine very slightest knew it would origin bodily harm and was reckless,” Olesko said.

Dirk Derskine, Walker’s lawyer, gave his ain opening reside informing jurors that this would beryllium a difficult case.

“Not only did Carland Walker origin her decease but this peculiar time was not a shocking time because he had beaten her aggregate times successful nan past. It’s a unspeakable point that Mr. Walker did, but nan mobility is to decide, did he person nan authorities of mind for murder?”

Derstine said his customer will return nan guidelines and admit to each nan unspeakable things he did but will opportunity he had nary volition of sidesplitting her connected that day.

“We’re going to telephone a pathologist of our own. He will opportunity nan system of decease is not clear. He’s going to opportunity nan quality of nan wounds inflicted are not nan benignant of wounds that would needfully origin death,” Derstine told jurors, explaining that Walker, who was 24 years aged astatine nan time, had nary thought that Aminzadah had an underlying aesculapian condition.

Walker has pleaded not blameworthy to first-degree murder. The proceedings continues.