Slain woman's co-workers testify accused was jealous, violent in Ajax triple murder trial
CBC
Co-workers of a woman killed in a 2018 triple slaying in Ajax told a court Tuesday their colleague had a difficult and sometimes violent relationship with the accused, who they say abused her and tried to control her.
Nicole Ferlito, an esthetician who worked with Krassimira Pejcinovski, also known as "Krissy," at Spa Sedona in Ajax, Ont., said Pejcinovski told her Cory Fenn, her boyfriend, did not want her to massage men at work.
"[Fenn] didn't believe it was just a massage; he thought it was more," Ferlito told the court.
Fenn, who is acting in his own defence, has pleaded not guilty at the judge-alone trial to three counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Pejcinovski, her 15-year-old son Roy and her daughter Venallia, 13, three years ago.
He sat in the prisoner's box Tuesday on the Oshawa courtroom listening quietly to the testimony and declining to cross-examine any witnesses when asked by Ontario Superior Court Justice Howard Leibovich.
Ferlito, a witness for the prosecution, said when she first started working at the spa in 2016, the 39-year-old Pejcinovsky was happy, friendly and outgoing. But she testified that stopped in early 2018 when Pejcinovski and Fenn would regularly break up and get back together, she told the court.
Ferlito testified when she asked Pejcinovski why she stopped wearing makeup, she told Ferlito Fenn didn't want her to wear it because "she looks like a slut."
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