In a brief statement to reporters, Cadotte thanked the jury and said he was relieved by the verdict. The crime had been framed in the media as a compassion killing — an offence that doesn’t exist in the Criminal Code. Long critical of her care, Cadotte testified it saddened him to see Lizotte on the day of the killing with her neck bent, sitting in a geriatric chair without a specialized head rest. “She was suffering too much,” Cadotte testified. A psychiatrist testifying for the defence told the jury that Cadotte was still suffering from depression diagnosed a few years earlier.

Source: thestar February 23, 2019 17:03 UTC