Well if she was in fact guilty...but nobody did see it and you would think blood would have got on her hair-skin if she swung the axe to kill him.What a way to die...sleeping away and somebody takes an axe on you.
Well shes got the $250,000...now if her GF gets off too, they might live happily ever after.....but then who did in fact kill him???
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_35097.aspx
Woman Found Not Guilty In Bedroom Axe Murder
Thursday June 4, 2009
CityNews.ca Staff
They told the judge they couldn't decide on the guilt or innocence of a woman accused of a horrible crime. But on Thursday, the panel judging Ashleigh Pechulak's fate came back with a stunning verdict - not guilty of first-degree murder.
The case had been sensational from the start, involving a lesbian couple, an alleged insurance grab and an axe murder.
It started in October 2006, when police where called to the Queensway apartment of Nicola Puddicombe, the girlfriend of 36-year-old Nicolas Hoy. She told authorities she went to take a shower and emerged from the bathroom about 20 minutes later to find his naked body filled with wounds, an axe lying by the bed.
But when police found both her hair and her shower weren't wet, they decided to take a closer look. They discovered Puddicombe was the sole beneficiary of Hoy's $250,000 life insurance policy and that she'd also been seeing Pechulak, who was now her lover.
Cops believed the pair of grocery store workers had planned the killing to finance a new start in their relationship and charged both with first-degree murder.
Pechulak faced trial first, as the court heard several weeks of sometimes grueling testimony about the murder and her alleged involvement in it. The jury was out for three days but on Wednesday, they returned to tell the judge they couldn't reach a decision.
Madame Justice Mary Lou Benotto forced them to go back and try again.
By Thursday afternoon, they'd apparently resolved their problems and came back with the not guilty conclusion, deciding the Crown had not proven its case.
Pechaluk dissolved into tears when the verdict was delivered, hugging her mother in triumph and relief.
Puddicombe's trial on the same charge starts Monday. It's not clear how this verdict will affect the Crown's arguments or the outcome in that case.
