Godfrey SIG-OD, the Toronto man who stabbed his ex-wife and daughter to death on Bathurst Street near Avenue Ellerslie in the afternoon of August 26, 2022, was found guilty of the murder at First degree of her ex-wife Elvie Sig-Ood. Regarding her daughter, Angelica SIG-OD, the jury recognized him not guilty of first degree murder but guilty of the slightest accusation of second degree murder.
The verdict was read in a courtroom in downtown Toronto just before 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, after three days of deliberations.
The verdict of guilt with regard to the first degree murder meant that the jury agreed with the assistant prosecutors of the Crown Rochelle Liberman and Victoria Di Iorio, who argued that Godfrey SIG-OD Godfrey, 48, made her plan to kill Elvie Sig-Ood, 44. The conclusion of guilt with regard to the second degree murder of the couple’s daughter, Angelica, aged 20, meant that they did not believe that Sig-Od planned to kill her daughter but should know that he was going Call bodily lesions, if not dead, stabbing it several times.
Elvie Sig-Od was stabbed or cut 14 times, and Angelica 19 times. The knife attacks the horrified motorists who testified to see the shots shocking on the side of the road in Toronto. The two were declared dead on the scene.
During the trial, the detective of the regional police of York, Jennifer Garford, testified to make a statement to Elvie in a Markham police station on November 20, 2020, less than two years before Elvie and Angelica were murdered. The declaration recorded on video band was played before the court showing Elvie saying to Garland that Sig-Od had threatened to kill her. She told the officer that she had gone to the SIG-OD workplace that morning to recover divorce papers that she had asked her to sign.
“I go away to go back to my car and he says” stop “, then he started to say to me” I planned to kill you before I even come here. This is my plan to kill you, ”said Elvie during the video band report. She told the officer that she was afraid and thought it was something that Sig-Od would do. SIG-OD said he had immigrated to the Philippines in 2019 in the Philippine Canada.
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Garford testified that a mandate had been issued for the arrest of SIG-OD, but he was never arrested. SIG-OD declared to the trial that he did not know any arrest warrant against his arrest.
Evidence was also provided by two other York regional police officers who testified that he had attended a domestic call to Markham on October 7, 2020. Elvie had called the police to report that she and Sig-Od had made an argument and that He was violent towards her and their daughter. Elvie reported that a threat had been made, but after talking to the police, it was determined that no criminal offense had taken place. The police testified Elvie had asked for a ban and asked her to attend the Newmarket courthouse in order to receive one.
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Liberman told the jurors during his closing speech on Wednesday that Godfrey Sig-Od had tried to obtain his ex-wife and daughter for months in order to make his plan to kill them both. She suggested that SIG-OD changed her strategy when he realized that they were not willing to invite them to them.
“He started to invite them to restaurants, he also started telling them to come to his pension to take money for various things and, the day he killed them, he sent 79 messages to Elvie and sent 15 to Angelica, “said Liberman the jury.
She said that SIG-OD attracted them to her pension that day using all the excuses he could think of.
“I submit to you that he really wanted them to be together, but I had limited options on the place to make the plan. He could not make the plan at the residence of Elvie and Angelica because he did not know where they lived, “said Liberman.
“And therefore, the car ended up being the best option for Mr. Sig-Ood to make its plan. Elvie was driving, Angelica was in the headquarters of the front passenger. Therefore, their back was to Mr. Sig-Ood. The car was a confined space and while they were driving, there was nowhere to go. »»
The Crown said that SIG-OD had realized the plan after realizing that there was no hope to bring his family together and that his daughter was no longer concerned on his side of the family.
Liberman argued that the evidence of sign that he was angry and did not remember having stabbed his ex-wife and his daughter should not be believed.
Defense lawyer Daniel Brodsky reminded the jury in his closing speech that his client tried to plead guilty of guilty manslaughter, admitting that he had killed his ex-wife and daughter. He then argued that SIG-OD had not planned or deliberately deliberately deliberated the deadly attack.
“He will learn about your verdict as to whether he has to be labeled by his fellow citizens like a cold-blooded murderer or a person who, in the absence of cool reflection, killed in hot blood,” said Brodsky.
He argued that his client had been overwhelmed by a blind rage at the time of fatal stab wounds.
“In this uncontrollable state, he was unleashed against his ex-wife and his daughter ignoring the true extent of the evil he was causing,” added Brodsky.
The first degree murder carries an automatic perpetuating sentence without any chance of parole for 25 years. The second degree murder is a perpetuity imprisonment with a period of ineligibility for parole between ten to 25 years.
Judge Al O’Marra asked jurors to make recommendations over a period of ineligibility for parole with regard to the verdict of the second degree murder. After a thirty -minute break, the judge read that a juror recommended 10 years, one recommended 20 years, one recommended 21 years, one declared 24 years and eight recommended 25 years.
A sentence determination hearing has been temporarily scheduled for March 3.
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