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Jury to receive final instructions in Guy Turcotte trial Monday

WATCH ABOVE: Guy Turcotte's first-degree murder trial.

SAINT-JEROME, Que. – The jury in the double murder trial of Guy Turcotte will receive final instructions from the judge on Monday.

The Crown completed its final arguments Wednesday, and suggested the slayings of Turcotte’s two young children were acts of revenge against his now ex-wife.

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Prosecutor Rene Verret took less than a day to present his case, saying the former Quebec doctor consumed windshield washer fluid after stabbing his children to death – contradicting a key defence argument.

The defence has argued a suicidal Turcotte began drinking washer fluid to kill himself and then decided to take his children with him when he felt he was dying.

It wants Turcotte to be found not guilty by way of mental disorder.

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Turcotte faces two counts of first-degree murder in the February 2009 slayings of five-year-old Olivier and three-year-old Anne-Sophie.

Verret’s closing arguments followed defence attorney Pierre Poupart’s final arguments, which spanned five days and wrapped up Tuesday.

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