Never knew about this. Brutal:
The eerie sound of a woman’s head being repeatedly slammed on the floor can be heard as Warren Mann coolly tells a 911 call-taker, “I killed her,” a Barrie court heard Wednesday.
The victim, Gail Brown, a prostitute who ran her own escort service, was beaten into a bloody coma in the bedroom of her Bernick Drive home on July 26, 2012.
Mann, 52, of Minden, Ont., pleaded not guilty to attempted murder because of his state of mind. None of the allegations have been proven in court.
“I’m calling to report a murder,” says Mann in the 911 call that was played to the jury.
“What happened?” asks the call-taker.
“I killed her,” he says.
“How did you do that?” he is asked.
“I choked her and beat her to death,” he answers.
As he speaks a dull, thump, thump, thump can be clearly heard in the background.
“Are you sure she’s dead?” the dispatcher asks.
“Well if she’s not, she’s gonna be,” he says. Then more sounds of thump, thump, thump.
Brown remained in coma for weeks and was not expected to survive the severe brain trauma, crushed larynx and trachea, and ruptured liver from the attack. But she lived and is expected to testify against her attacker despite ongoing health troubles.
Court heard Mann was a regular customer and paid Brown for sex, but he wanted more from her.
“He thought the relationship was something more than simply commercial,” said Crown attorney Fred Temple.
On the witness stand, the woman’s daughter, Kayla Brown, 20, was tearful as she testified how she woke in the night and rushed to her mother’s room to see Mann straddling her mother, who lay in a pool of blood on the floor.
“He was beating her head on the floor,” said Brown in a soft, timid, voice. “I started screaming.”
She was asked to listen to the 911 recording and compare the thumping sound to the sound of her mother’s head hitting the floor that night.
As she listened, she bowed her head, covered her face and wept.
“It’s the same sound,” she said, wringing her hands.
She said she grabbed a glass vase and smashed it on the back of Mann’s neck and he stood up to tell her, “you’re mother is my problem,” she testified.
“I froze. I was staring at my mother on the floor,” Brown said. “I thought she was dead.”
She ran to a neighbor's home screaming for help while Mann called 911 on his own, court heard.
The next time she saw her mother, she was laying in a Toronto hospital bed in a coma after surgery.
“Her face was swollen, her hair was gone. She did not look like my mom,” the daughter testified.
She said her mother has difficulty walking and speaks with a raspy voice.
The trial continues.
barrie.news@sunmedia.ca
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2015/04/08/man-on-trial-for-attempted-murder-in-barrie
The eerie sound of a woman’s head being repeatedly slammed on the floor can be heard as Warren Mann coolly tells a 911 call-taker, “I killed her,” a Barrie court heard Wednesday.
The victim, Gail Brown, a prostitute who ran her own escort service, was beaten into a bloody coma in the bedroom of her Bernick Drive home on July 26, 2012.
Mann, 52, of Minden, Ont., pleaded not guilty to attempted murder because of his state of mind. None of the allegations have been proven in court.
“I’m calling to report a murder,” says Mann in the 911 call that was played to the jury.
“What happened?” asks the call-taker.
“I killed her,” he says.
“How did you do that?” he is asked.
“I choked her and beat her to death,” he answers.
As he speaks a dull, thump, thump, thump can be clearly heard in the background.
“Are you sure she’s dead?” the dispatcher asks.
“Well if she’s not, she’s gonna be,” he says. Then more sounds of thump, thump, thump.
Brown remained in coma for weeks and was not expected to survive the severe brain trauma, crushed larynx and trachea, and ruptured liver from the attack. But she lived and is expected to testify against her attacker despite ongoing health troubles.
Court heard Mann was a regular customer and paid Brown for sex, but he wanted more from her.
“He thought the relationship was something more than simply commercial,” said Crown attorney Fred Temple.
On the witness stand, the woman’s daughter, Kayla Brown, 20, was tearful as she testified how she woke in the night and rushed to her mother’s room to see Mann straddling her mother, who lay in a pool of blood on the floor.
“He was beating her head on the floor,” said Brown in a soft, timid, voice. “I started screaming.”
She was asked to listen to the 911 recording and compare the thumping sound to the sound of her mother’s head hitting the floor that night.
As she listened, she bowed her head, covered her face and wept.
“It’s the same sound,” she said, wringing her hands.
She said she grabbed a glass vase and smashed it on the back of Mann’s neck and he stood up to tell her, “you’re mother is my problem,” she testified.
“I froze. I was staring at my mother on the floor,” Brown said. “I thought she was dead.”
She ran to a neighbor's home screaming for help while Mann called 911 on his own, court heard.
The next time she saw her mother, she was laying in a Toronto hospital bed in a coma after surgery.
“Her face was swollen, her hair was gone. She did not look like my mom,” the daughter testified.
She said her mother has difficulty walking and speaks with a raspy voice.
The trial continues.
barrie.news@sunmedia.ca
http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2015/04/08/man-on-trial-for-attempted-murder-in-barrie
