HALIFAX – An agreed statement of facts presented in the case of a man charged with killing two men in Halifax six years ago is shedding light on their deaths.
Glen Race pleaded guilty in September in the province’s Supreme Court to first- and second-degree murder charges, but his lawyer filed an application to declare him not criminally responsible.
The judge did not enter convictions so that the application can be heard.
The Crown read an agreed statement of facts Monay that says Race met Michael Knott on the night of May 1, 2007, on Citadel Hill, where he stabbed the 44-year-old man to death in the front seat of his car.
READ: The agreed statement of facts
The 30-page document says Race fatally bludgeoned and stabbed 45-year-old Trevor Brewster six days later at Frenchman Lake in Dartmouth.
“A lot of it was brought on by himself, and refusing to take his medication, and not making the applications required in order to put him on the psychiatric medication that he’s now on,” said defence lawyer Joel Pink.
Race pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Brewster, and guilty of second-degree murder in Knott’s death.
Race, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when he was a young man, was extradited from the United States in October 2010 to face the charges.
“He has avenues of parole down there that he may choose to pursue,” said Paul Carver, senior crown attorney.
At the time of his extradition, he was serving a life sentence for the 2007 shooting death of Darcy Manor in New York.
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