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NEW WESTMINSTER — A Surrey woman on trial for second-degree murder in the multiple stabbing death of her best friend told police the victim had told her she wanted to die. Jessica Ashley Hanley, 25, is accused of stabbing 22-year-old Burnaby resident Tashina Rae Sutherland 41 times inside a small rancher at 10593 138th St. in Whalley, on April 26, 2012. Hanley’s trial is being heard in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster. Most of the past two weeks have been spent in a voir dire hearing, or a trial within a trial in which the Crown and defence are arguing over the admissibility of three statements Hanley made to police over more than 11 hours of interviews at the Surrey RCMP detachment hall. Justice Elizabeth Arnold-Bailey will have to decide if these statements will
be brought into evidence in the trial proper, or not. The Crown argues they were made voluntarily while Hanley’s lawyer maintains her Charter Rights had been breached. On Thursday, the court heard the last of the statements in question as the police interview videotape was played in court. See FULL STORY › online
Earlier in the trial, the court heard testimony that Hanley and Sutherland had been partying the night before her death, drinking. Hanley’s boyfriend testified he’d bought a half-gram of cocaine and gave it to Sutherland. Outside court, though, Sutherland’s kin insisted she would not have involved herself in such things. Hanley’s boyfriend had also earlier testified Sutherland was “very happy, bubbly,” and had “a lust for life.”
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During Hanley’s interview with police at the Surrey RCMP detachment, however, the accused murderer suggested the stabbing was an assisted suicide. “She wanted me to kill her and then kill myself, and I was like, ‘no way,’” Hanley said. “I hugged her and I said, ‘No, I’m not going to do it,’” she said, adding that Sutherland “got upset” at her because “I wimped out.” The interviewing police officer asked Hanley about a text message she’d sent seeking advice on what chemicals to use to get blood out of a wooden floor. He noted she had also texted a friend of her boyfriend’s with the message, “I just killed her. I just said goodbye to my sis.” Hanley told the officer, “I just stabbed her with the big knife. I don’t know why.” The trial continues.
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