The facts of the spousal assault are central to the commission’s mandate to examine gender-based violence and also provide insight into the RCMP handling of reports of the killer’s abuse of women before the 2020 shooting
A former Mountie’s account that a 2013 call involving the Nova Scotia mass killer was about a routine “disturbance” – rather than a vicious domestic assault – is encountering contradictory evidence at a public inquiry.
Her testimony has been set against an April 29 account from Const. Troy Maxwell, who retired from the RCMP last year. He has told inquiry investigators that in fact Forbes called to complain the killer was “tearing around” the community in a decommissioned police car. Banfield also confirmed on Friday that she was choked by the killer on her front lawn in Portapique, and she said Wortman’s uncle, Glynn Wortman, witnessed the assault. Glynn Wortman has confirmed the assault in a statement to police. In addition, Richard Ellison, a former neighbour, has said in police interviews that David Ellison, his brother, and another neighbour witnessed the assault.
A page of Maxwell’s notes tabled as evidence at the inquiry includes Banfield’s first name and the name of Glynn Wortman – two of the key witnesses in the choking assault. The inquiry quotes an RCMP investigator as saying “Maxwell did not mention why” Glynn Wortman is in his notes, and in his interview, Maxwell said he didn’t recall why the names were noted.
A summary prepared by the inquiry says “the circumstances surrounding the police involvement in the Sutherland Lake incident are unclear. Details around who called the police, when the police arrived, why the police were called, and what the police understood at the time are unknown.”
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