Grace Robotti was spaced out and not acting like herself in the days after she killed Roxanne Louie, her daughter told jurors Monday.
Danielle Robotti, Grace香蕉视频直播檚 daughter, said she lived Osoyoos at the time of the killing. She and her mother spoke on the phone regularly and, like everyone else, she had been told that Roxanne had simply gone missing.
As the missing person香蕉视频直播檚 investigation got underway, and Louie failed to come forward, Grace showed up at Danielle香蕉视频直播檚 house.
That in itself wasn香蕉视频直播檛 unusual, but her demeanour was.
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It wasn香蕉视频直播檛 until the day before Grace and Pier Robotti turned themselves in to police that Danielle found out why.
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Danielle said she didn香蕉视频直播檛 remember much after that, and the details of the crime were mostly spelled out by her uncle, Pier, the next day.
She did, however, immediately realize that her mother would be going to jail as what she deemed to be the legal consequence of taking a life.
When asked by Crown counsel John Swanson if she ever wondered why her mother lied to her, Danielle said that she knew her mother hid the truth to protect her.
Danielle wasn香蕉视频直播檛 the only one to view Grace Robotti香蕉视频直播檚 lies in that light.
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Her brother Pier testified Monday that much of what Grace did after killing Louie was motivated by fear of what would happen to her great grandson.
Pier, who said the Jan. 4 2015 killing left him with an understanding of 香蕉视频直播減ost traumatic stress syndrome,香蕉视频直播 told his older sister to call the police shortly after realizing Louie had been killed in a Jan. 4, 2015 altercation.
He told jurors that after Louie stopped struggling, he got up and tended to her child in another room.
Upon his return 30 minutes later, Louie was covered with a blanket and his sister was cleaning blood.
香蕉视频直播淲hen I first saw the scene I went outside and started chain smoking,香蕉视频直播 Pier said.
When his sister joined him outside, he told her to call the police.
Instead, she asked him to hide Louie香蕉视频直播檚 body, so she could have time to get the child香蕉视频直播檚 business in order. In particular, she wanted to get the child in the custody of her daughter, his grandmother.
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He slid Louie香蕉视频直播檚 body down a slope off a remote road in Naramata.
It was caught on some shrubbery and Pier followed it down, crossed Louie香蕉视频直播檚 arms over her chest. He then offered some words.
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He then went home, and cared for the child while Grace continued on with what she was doing. He told jurors he thought she香蕉视频直播檇 only need two or three days, but it took nearly a week for her to complete what she wanted to get done.
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