The lawyer for Gurpreet Ronald was trying to cut holes today into explosive testimony that she had attacked her estranged husband several times with a knife.
Michael Smith suggested a completely different story fueled by anger, alcohol and drugs. Last week, Jason Ronald made reference to the movie "Psycho" when he talked about how his wife Gurpreet came at him. Today, another movie came to mind: "He Said, She Said."
Jason Ronald testified last week that during their rocky marriage, Gurpreet came at him four times with a knife, like a scene from the movie "Psycho," he told court.
But Gurpreet's lawyer Michael Smith had another scene in mind, suggesting on one occasion, Jason Ronald pinned Gurpreet against a sink, while yelling at her and that Gurpreet pulled a knife and fork in defence.
He said on another occasion, again over an argument about money, that Gurpreet was just waving the knife she was using for cooking at that moment, to which Jason Ronald replied "doing this (he gestured, waving a pen), is not the same as her doing this (he said, making stabbing motions)".
Smith said despite these incidents, Jason Ronald "took no remedial steps to tell anyone, or call police?"
"No, I felt her hatred was always reserved for me, "he told court, "clearly I was wrong.”
Smith tried to present Jason Ronald as a vindictive man, angry over his wife's attitude towards him, over his drinking, drugs and lack of ambition.
And then the affair with Bhupinderpal Gill.
"You believed something was happening between your wife and Gill" he asked.
"Yes for years" Ronald replied. "I'd have been a fool not to".
Jason Ronald even tried to confront Gill at his Barrhaven home in 2013 over the affair.
"You were going to confront him," suggested Smith. "Call him out and have a little talk.”
"I was going to tell him to take her if he wanted her," Ronald replied, to laughter in the courtroom.
Then, in answer to a question about her love for her two children, Jason Ronald replied "I don't know if she's capable of love. She only cares about herself."
The Crown then established that Gurpreet Ronald was the one who insisted her husband Jason stay somewhere else the night of the murder. And asked him the next day to lie about where he had been because he had stayed with another woman.
