The wife of the man responsible for the Nova Scotia mass shooting began telling her story in public for the first time before an inquiry.
Lisa Banfield struggled to maintain her composure as she described how her partner beat her in 2003 as witnesses looked on, and she offered new details about what happened when her spouse threatened to kill his parents in 2010.
Still, Banfield’s testimony was at times painful and dramatic, as she described what happened in June 2010 when Wortman’s uncle alerted Halifax police that his nephew had threatened to kill his parents over a property dispute. When an RCMP officer showed up at the couple’s summer home in Portapique, N.S.,after the death threat was reported, Wortman insisted he didn’t own any firearms, aside from an old musket and another antique weapon suspended near the fireplace and “filled with wax,” Banfield testified.
She testified that when she tried to leave the bush party, Wortman became irate. As the pair drove away in his Jeep, he started punching her, she said. Asked why she declined to report the assault to police, Banfield replied: “That’s the first time anybody hit me, and I didn’t want to get anybody in trouble. I just thought, ‘I’m walking away.”’
Some members of the victims’ families attended the hearing Friday. Banfield was accompanied by two of her sisters, Janice and Maureen.
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