Defence says Greg Fertuck a lying alcoholic with a head injury preyed on by police in Mr. Big sting
CBC
Greg Fertuck's lawyer says the 68-year-old accused killer drifted through the first six months of a police sting in a whisky and beer haze, collecting cash for doing nothing and chronically lying
Morris Bodnar made the characterization Friday outside Court of Queen's Bench in Saskatoon after cross-examining a key police witness in Fertuck's murder trial.
Fertuck is charged with first-degree murder in the disappearance of his wife Sheree on Dec. 7, 2015.
The 51-year-old mother of three went missing after heading to work at a gravel pit near Kenaston, Sask. Her truck, jacket and cellphone were found there on Dec. 8, and she has not been seen or heard from since.
Although Greg told undercover police that he shot her and dumped her body in the country, he later changed that story and pleaded not guilty.
Police elicited the admission by posing as criminals in a technique known as a Mr. Big sting. None of the officers involved in the operation, called Project Fisten, can be named because of a court-ordered publication ban.
Justice Richard Danyliuk is presiding over the judge-alone trial and he has yet to determine the admissibility of the evidence from the sting.
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