An Edmonton man testified Wednesday he was being terrorized by a group of serial killers when he killed his ex-girlfriend and assaulted two others last year.
Mark Lindsay, 25, a son of former Edmonton Police chief John Lindsay, said he killed Dana Turner in Alberta because he feared for his life.
Lindsay testified Turner, 31, was part of the group of serial killers who had been threatening him for years.
"This sounds crazy, but she was a powerful witch and she could communicate with me psychically," he testified.
His confession was one of three he made on the stand Wednesday, including that he slashed an undercover police officer and stabbed a man in the eye with a pencil at the Kamloops Regional Correction Centre while playing Scrabble.
The Crown asked that Lindsay undergo a psychiatric evaluation and the judge in the case will consider the request Thursday.
Lindsay testified the group of serial killers wanted to scare him out of town based on false allega-tions that he sexually assaulted one of their friends.
Turner was one of the serial killers, he explained, so he thought it was best to maintain a friendly relationship with her.
He said Turner told him psychically that she was going to come and kill him.
"I tried to kill her with a pencil I had in my pocket ... I killed her," he told the court.
The soft-spoken Lindsay, who testified in his red prison-issue jumpsuit, told the court he killed the woman in a panic.
He testified he hid Turner's body outside of Calgary and then went to 91原创 for a couple of weeks to get out of town, but he said he continued to receive threatening phone calls from the serial killers.
The body was found in October 2011 in a field near Innisfail.
Lindsay is currently on trial for slashing the police officer with a knife during a so-called Mr. Big police operation, where police try to entice a confession out of a suspect.
He's to appear in an Alberta court next year accused of Turner's murder. His trial on charges stemming from the Scrabble incident is set for next week.
