Jurors will soon decide the fate of a 麻豆精选 man who is accused of killing his roommate.
Both Crown and defence have called all their evidence and closing submissions are expected to get underway next week.
Warren Welters, 51, was found face down on his bed with four hammer blows to the back of his head June 2015 in a second-floor suite at a Bernard Avenue home.
His room-mate, Daniel Garth Ruff, is charged with second-degree murder and Crown council Colin Forsyth has presented evidence to show that Welters was killed while in bed. Jurors have been given blood spatter evidence, friends have testified about the relationship and police have recounted the night of the crime and their interactions with Ruff.
On Wednesday, however, Ruff told jurors that he did kill his former roommate during a fight two years ago, but he hadn鈥檛 intended to.
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鈥淚 was in a fight for my life.鈥�
Ruff has COPD and said if he hadn鈥檛 fought he would have died.
鈥淲hen a man who is bigger than you is on you, trying to choke you 鈥� I had to fight back,鈥� he said. 鈥淚 was fighting back.鈥�
The two men had an acrimonious relationship and argued regularly.
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鈥淭hey were significant (arguments) but we worked our way around it most the time,鈥� he said.
He also said they both drank heavily and the reason he wasn鈥檛 forthright with police or the 911 operator in the immediate aftermath of the crime is that he was shaken by all that had occurred.
