BATTLEFORD, Sask. – A 16-year-old boy accused of being an accomplice in the deaths of a Saskatchewan couple has testified that it was during a drinking session when an older youth hatched a plan to kill the pair. The teen was on the stand Wednesday in the first-degree murder trial of a 19-year-old man charged in the October 2012 deaths of Genne and Teresa Nolin at their home in Rapid View, Sask.
The man was 17 at the time and his name is under a publication ban, along with that of the boy.
The witness, who was 14 when the Nolins died, told the court that he and the accused were drinking beer when the older teen came up with the idea to kill the couple. He also testified that he didn’t want to murder the two but felt influenced by the older boy, and says the same decisions probably would not have been made had he not been drinking.
The trial was to resume Thursday with closing arguments.
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The court has previously seen an RCMP video of an interview with the accused man, in which he tells police that the motive for the slayings was to get money for drugs.
He tells police that he and another teen first planned to use knives, but ended up using guns. He also explains how he fired the first shot at Genne Nolin, while the second teen shot the man’s wife and then fired again at Genne.
He tells an officer it was his accomplice who decided which person each of them would kill.
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