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Buchanan didn’t go to the apartment intending to kill Sitar. Death would have occurred very rapidly, a pathologist testified.Īlthough the Crown proved all the elements of second-degree murder, Baird questioned whether the verdict should be reduced to manslaughter. But cause of death was blunt-force trauma caused by multiple blows to his head. The autopsy revealed that Sitar had toxic levels of fentanyl, metham and methadone that may have been lethal. Sitar to come back and kill him,” said Baird. Sitar was probably dead after the first blow, but he kept going to make sure. Buchanan went to the front door, locked it, grabbed a baseball bat and hit Sitar on the head with it. Sitar was in and out of consciousness, high on drugs, the inmate recounted. Sitar was brandishing a gun as he said this, the inmate testified. Then Sitar told Buchanan he wanted him to re-steal a motorbike that had already been returned to its owners by police or he would shoot his girlfriend. They started arguing about the absent drugs and the money. When he returned later, he found Sitar had used the drugs. Buchanan told the inmate, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, that on the day of the killing he gave Sitar $80 for heroin and meth. In his decision, Baird accepted and relied on the evidence of an inmate who testified that Buchanan had confessed to the killing. He was pronounced dead at the scene.īuchanan was arrested two days later and remained in custody until November 2019. She walked in and found Sitar mortally wounded, covered in blood, sitting on the living room couch. Buchanan is seen leaving Sitar’s apartment, carrying bags.Īt 7:06 p.m., Amanda returned and found the door unlocked. After waiting for a few minutes, she left. He was let into Sitar’s apartment three minutes later.Īt 6:39 p.m., Sitar’s wife Amanda arrived at the apartment but found the door locked. Footage showed Sitar returning to his apartment alone at 6:10 p.m. Video evidence gathered by police allowed Baird to conclude that Buchanan had an “exclusive opportunity” to kill Sitar. On the day he died, Sitar appeared to be jumpy. He played satanic heavy-metal music at ear-splitting volumes, let people into the building at all hours and propped open the emergency exits to let his customers in. “The assault appeared to be nasty, gratuitous, excessive and completely unprovoked,” said Baird.Ĭourt heard that Sitar was selfish and vindictive. Sitar,” said Baird.Ī few weeks before his death, Sitar attacked Buchanan with pepper spray in the parking lot of the neighbourhood McDonald’s.

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FAMILY SOUGHT SAY. TORMENTOR. THEY SHOT TRIAL

Sometimes they got along, but sometimes things between them became fractious and violent, Baird said, in a review of trial evidence. He was in and out of Sitar’s apartment on a regular basis. Buchanan bought his drugs primarily from Sitar and supplied him with stolen property for cash or to barter for drugs. Buchanan was a heroin and methamphetamine addict, living rough in a makeshift shanty in a backyard near Sitar’s apartment building.īuchanan had a dysfunctional and morbidly dependent relationship with Sitar, Baird said. He lived with his wife, Amanda, and ran a brisk trade in narcotics and stolen property out of their apartment on Nicol Street. Sitar.”Įvidence at trial revealed that Sitar was a drug dealer, prolific thief and property fencer. “You reacted inappropriately and disproportionately, but understandably, to a sufficiently wrongful act or insult from Mr.

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