RED DEER, Alta. – A psychologist says an Edmonton man accused of killing his girlfriend has some signs of paranoid psychosis.
Marc Nesca testified today in court in Red Deer about his assessment of 29-year-old Mark Lindsay.
Lindsay is charged with second-degree murder, offering an indignity to a body and obstruction in the death of 31-year-old Dana Turner in August 2011.
An agreed statement of facts states Lindsay stabbed Turner in the eye with a pencil, strangled her with a shoelace, ran over her body and dumped it near Innisfail.
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Nesca said Lindsay did not develop normally as a child, showed bizarre behaviour and attachment issues, and started abusing substances at around 10 years old.
Lindsay, who is the son of former Edmonton police chief John Lindsay, is being tried by a judge alone and the defence is arguing he should not be held criminally responsible.
With files from CHUB radio Red Deer.