Wheaten spoke with them both, with Shanna — also a psychiatric nurse — appearing to manage and advocate for her husband's care, she said. A collage of Lionel Desmond, his wife Shanna, his mother Brenda, his 10-year-old daughter, Aaliyah, and his military comrades. The inquiry heard last week about Desmond's one-night stay in hospital two months later. When Wheaten saw him roughly two months before that, she helped the couple make a plan to deal with Desmond's "anger issues." Wheaten testified that she told the couple this kind of behaviour "wasn't healthy" and said she asked Shanna if she had support nearby.

Source: CBC News February 11, 2020 13:52 UTC