Nurse tells court at Guy Turcotte trial that he wanted to spite ex-wife

SAINT-JÉRÔME, Que. – A nurse testifying at Guy Turcotte’s first-degree murder trial told the court that he claimed to have killed his two children to spite his wife.

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Chantal Duhamel told the courtroom that Turcotte “wanted to make her angry.”

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She added that he told her he did not want his two children to suffer from his separation from Isabelle Gaston and that is why he killed them in 2009.

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Emergency technician Marie-Pierre Chartrand also testified that Turcotte told hospital officials a day after his children were stabbed to death that he wanted to die and that what he had done was terrible.