Lachine murder: Witness to murder sends message to dead man

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A woman who witnessed her boyfriend's murder in a house in Lachine three years ago sent him messages after his death for two different reasons.

The woman testified in a Montreal court Wednesday in the trial of Veronique Manceau, a 38-year-old woman charged with the second-degree murder of Jimmy Methot. The victim was killed in Manso's home over Labor Day weekend in 2021. Manso was also accused of molesting Meto's body.

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The 31-year-old witness, who cannot be named, was Methot's girlfriend for about two years before she was killed. He was a long time friend of Manso.

On Tuesday, he answered questions from prosecutor Marie after describing how he was in “shock” when Metho was attacked by Manso and the then-minor, and that his body was a bloody mess after being stabbed. About text messages sent by Claude Bourassa to the deceased.

“After she was killed, Veronica asked me to text her because her friends wouldn't know where she was. I sent them later,” said the woman, wiping her tears with a napkin.

He told Methot that he didn't want to delete the messages that told him he loved her.

“I told him I loved him and I was sad,” the woman said, adding that she didn't want to delete the messages “because that's all that was left of him.”

She said that at some point after the attack, Methot lifted something covering her body and kissed her on the forehead.

He described his relationship with Meto and Manso as complicated. Shortly after the murder, he saw Methot again after he was released from prison, but suspected that he was seeing another woman. She said it didn't matter to her because she was seeing someone else.

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According to him, Manso was a person who “gets very upset when he doesn't have light”.

“He was in a world of f-king psychosis (after Methot was killed),” the woman said. “We all thought it was f—ked.”

The woman was explaining what was behind the strange text messages Manso sent her after Methot was killed. He said Manso was frustrated because no one helped him clean up the blood in his house. According to the witness, Manso expected him, the juvenile and another man present at the time of the attack, Everett Roger Clayton, to have a long career ahead of him.

According to the Crown's theory, Methot was killed on September 6-7, 2021.

While the witness was on the stand, the jury was shown an eight-second video he recorded on his phone on the afternoon of September 8, 2021. The video shows Manso vacuuming the mat outside his front door. He can be heard laughing as he picks up the vacuum cleaner and continues to vacuum the entryway of his home.

While he was being attacked, Methot made it to the front porch and tried to escape, but the juvenile grabbed him and took him back to Manso's living room, where he died. In the video, Manso is seen kissing his friend while the woman says, “This is my wife. He vacuums indoors and outdoors.”

In earlier testimony, the woman said she and Manso sometimes called each other “wife” or “wife” when joking.

“As I said before (in his testimony), whatever I needed to do in this house, I was with him,” the woman said when asked why she would film the video when Buurasa Methot's body was still in the house.

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