BRAMPTON - It was the bloody massacre of a helpless child allegedly foretold in a short story by one of two former lovebirds now on trial for first-degree murder.
Aleksandra Firgan-Hewie was just 13 when, prosecutors say, she was lured by Michelle Liard and her boyfriend, Rafal LaSota, to his Mississauga home and viciously stabbed 37 times before her body was shoved into a garbage bag and dumped behind his backyard shed on Dec. 10, 2008.
Liard, with mousy long hair and glasses, and LaSota, his eyes puffy from tears, have pleaded not guilty to the murder. LaSota had tried to plead guilty to manslaughter, but his plea was rejected by the Crown.
At the opening day of their trial, prosecutor Jennifer Goulin outlined the tragic case of an innocent girl who had just moved to Mississauga from Port Perry and wanted “very much to belong.” She fell in with the Tunnel Group, an older crowd that chilled under the GO Transit bridge in Clarkson, where she befriended Liard, then 19, and LaSota, 25.
In October, 2008, Goulin said, one of their group overheard Liard, who went by the nickname Meesha, tell her new friend that she “wanted to experiment, that she wanted to cut Aleks up into little pieces.”
It was a macabre fantasy Liard repeated to another friend as well, the prosecutor said. “She wanted to cut them up into little pieces, to chop them up,” Goulin told the jury.
Police would later find a five-page story Liard wrote about a woman named Meesha, her boyfriend Rafal and a hitchhiker who kidnap a blonde woman and confine her to a motel where they stuff a sock in her mouth and slash her to death.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/22/accused-killer-said-shed-cut-girl-into-little-pieces-crown
Aleksandra Firgan-Hewie was just 13 when, prosecutors say, she was lured by Michelle Liard and her boyfriend, Rafal LaSota, to his Mississauga home and viciously stabbed 37 times before her body was shoved into a garbage bag and dumped behind his backyard shed on Dec. 10, 2008.
Liard, with mousy long hair and glasses, and LaSota, his eyes puffy from tears, have pleaded not guilty to the murder. LaSota had tried to plead guilty to manslaughter, but his plea was rejected by the Crown.
At the opening day of their trial, prosecutor Jennifer Goulin outlined the tragic case of an innocent girl who had just moved to Mississauga from Port Perry and wanted “very much to belong.” She fell in with the Tunnel Group, an older crowd that chilled under the GO Transit bridge in Clarkson, where she befriended Liard, then 19, and LaSota, 25.
In October, 2008, Goulin said, one of their group overheard Liard, who went by the nickname Meesha, tell her new friend that she “wanted to experiment, that she wanted to cut Aleks up into little pieces.”
It was a macabre fantasy Liard repeated to another friend as well, the prosecutor said. “She wanted to cut them up into little pieces, to chop them up,” Goulin told the jury.
Police would later find a five-page story Liard wrote about a woman named Meesha, her boyfriend Rafal and a hitchhiker who kidnap a blonde woman and confine her to a motel where they stuff a sock in her mouth and slash her to death.
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/02/22/accused-killer-said-shed-cut-girl-into-little-pieces-crown
