Ruthowsky, correct,” Crown attorney John Pollard asked the witness Thursday during re-examination in Ontario Superior Court. Reporting a crime to police that “he saw” was different than passing on information told to him by a murder victim’s cousin. “A friend … came to me, he was hysterical … and he asked me to pass on the information, so I did. It could have been a lie for all I know.”The identity of the witness, a cocaine dealer from Hamilton, is protected under a publication ban. The drug dealer, who finished his final day on the witness stand Thursday, spent much of the previous three days jousting with Ruthowsky’s defence lawyer, Greg Lafontaine.

Source: thestar March 29, 2018 21:11 UTC