‘I don’t remember that night’: Accused takes the stand in Kelowna manslaughter trial
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One of the men accused of a fatal stabbing in downtown Kelowna during Canada Day in 2018 took the stand to tell the judge about what happened the day Esa Carriere was killed.
One of the men accused of a fatal stabbing in downtown Kelowna during Canada Day in 2018 took the stand on Wednesday, and told the judge that he doesn’t remember any of the events around that time.
Noah Vaten, who is one of the men accused in the manslaughter of Esa Carriere, said he went down to City Park to watch the fireworks earlier in the afternoon.
He had spent the day drinking and smoking cannabis, and his last memory is doing a line of cocaine while it was still light out, he said.
Vaten testified that his next memory isn’t until hours later, when he was arrested for kicking at the windows of the Rutland police station.
Court heard he then spent the night in the drunk tank but was released the next morning, as police hadn’t connected the homicide to Vaten at that point.
Vaten said he hitchhiked across the country about a month later to meet up with his brother in Toronto.
He would finally be arrested for manslaughter in Manitoba in January 2019 while he was on a trip to visit his mother.
During a police interview, he consistently told officers that he has no memory of the stabbing.
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