The sufferer testified that he grabbed a fireplace poker and went to the alley to confront the person he believed threw the mower, and was stabbed.
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What started as a yard hearth with household grew to become a again alley brawl after a dispute broke out between neighbours in Saskatoon’s Pleasant Hill neighbourhood.
Testifying in Saskatoon provincial court docket on Tuesday, a person mentioned he and his spouse had been hit with a lawnmower thrown over their neighbour’s fence within the 400 block of Avenue T South on Nov. 27, 2022.
The man mentioned he grabbed a four-foot metallic poker from the hearth and went to confront the person he believed had thrown the mower. He instructed court docket the person stabbed him 5 instances during a scuffle and mentioned “Die motherf****er” as he walked away.
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Garry Moise Laurin is on trial, charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon. He pleaded responsible to an unrelated mischief cost.
Court heard Laurin was visiting his sister, who lived subsequent door to the couple.
The man mentioned it began when his feminine neighbour requested, from behind her fence, in the event that they had been having a fireplace. The man mentioned he replied “Yes” after which heard the lady say one thing again, to which he replied “Shut up, bitch.”
Under cross-examination, he instructed defence lawyer Britney Cheyne that the indignant comment stemmed from months of stress that had been constructing between the neighbours, principally over excessively loud music.
The man instructed Crown prosecutor Paul Scott {that a} man began yelling and kicking his fence. He mentioned there was silence and he rotated, assuming the argument had ended, till a mower soared over the fence, hitting him on the pinnacle and his spouse within the face.
He clarified during cross-examination that the mower had no motor, estimating the shell weighed between 50 and 80 kilos.
The man mentioned he noticed his spouse on the bottom and grabbed the poker, went to the alley and hit the again of his neighbour’s fence to name the person out.
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He instructed court docket that he supposed to hit him as “payback” for throwing the mower, however dropped his weapon after considered one of two girls who got here into the alley with Laurin hit him on the again with a crutch.
He mentioned he noticed a six-inch steak knife fall as he lay on the bottom making an attempt to dam Laurin’s punches. Laurin picked it up and stabbed him 5 instances, he mentioned.
He was hospitalized for six days, off work for six weeks and has been on long-term incapacity since being identified with post-traumatic stress dysfunction, he testified.
“I’m still trying to get my life back.”
The man admitted he can’t definitively say that the person he was arguing with over the fence was the identical one he fought within the alley, “But there was only one man there.”
When Cheyne requested if he noticed Laurin throw the lawnmower, the person mentioned it needed to be him as a result of one of many girls was on crutches and the opposite was “90 pounds.”
Cheyne instructed Laurin didn’t throw the mower, and stabbed the person in self-defence after the person approached him with a weapon and stabbed him within the hand whereas on high of him.
“False. One hundred per cent false,” the person replied.
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His spouse instructed court docket that after she was in a position to stand, she noticed two girls and a person attacking her husband within the alley. She mentioned she grabbed an axe from the storage, however dropped it during a tussle with the ladies. Her husband instructed her to cease as a result of he’d been stabbed, she mentioned.
In court docket, she recognized Laurin as the person she noticed stroll previous her within the alley, laughing.
The trial is scheduled to proceed on Wednesday.
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