Richard Henry Bain trial: Crown asks jury to find accused guilty in election-night slaying

The Crown has completed its closing arguments at the first-degree murder trial of accused Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooter Richard Henry Bain.

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Prosecutor Dennis Galiatsatos told the jury Friday he believes the Crown has established beyond a reasonable doubt that Bain is guilty on all six charges, including one of first-degree murder.

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Galiatsatos said the evidence suggests Bain was of sound mind the night of the shooting, which he argued was motivated by anger at the Parti Québécois (PQ) election victory that day, Sept. 4, 2012.

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Bain is charged in the shooting death of stagehand Denis Blanchette and also faces five other counts, including three of attempted murder.

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The Crown suggested to jurors the not criminally responsible defence mounted by Bain is flimsy and invited them to carefully evaluate the credibility of his testimony in court and his comments to psychiatrists who also testified.

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The accused has claimed he doesn’t remember what happened that night but Galiatsatos told the jury Bain’s “amnesia” was contradicted by witness accounts and handwritten notes he penned for a psychiatrist evaluating him in November 2012.