Leslie Greenwood maintained his innocence during a police interview following his arrest on firstdegree charges in the deaths of Barry Mersereau and Nancy Christensen.
Jurors at Greenwood’s retrial Thursday saw the video recording of the interview from Dec. 9, 2010.
Greenwood at one point said he didn’t know Michael Lawrence, who has since pleaded guilty in the case and who testified for the Crown.
RCMP Cpl. Fraser Firth, who was conducting the interview, dismissed that. “We’re way past that now,” he said.
Using a fishing analogy, Firth told Greenwood, “You’re not on the hook, you’re in the boat.”
Greenwood insisted he was only at Mersereau and Christensen’s house on Sept. 9, 2000, to pick up drugs and cigarettes at the direction of Jeff Lynds.
He said he didn’t know the details of what was supposed to happen, and didn’t know where the truck he and Lawrence used to get to Mersereau’s house came from.
He said he was “chit-chatting away” with Mersereau, then grabbed the bags he was there to get and went to the truck parked outside.
Just after he went outside, he said, he heard gunshots.
He and Lawrence left after that, he said, and he tossed a box over the railing of a bridge while Lawrence threw a gun over.
He said he didn’t have a gun with him.
Firth said he didn’t understand why Lawrence would take Greenwood with him to a shooting if he wasn’t involved.
“You’d be a loose end,” he said.
He also said it was odd that Jeff Lynds would send Greenwood to the house without letting him know that Lawrence was going to shoot Mersereau and Christensen.
Greenwood said he didn’t see Lawrence after that day.
At one point a different officer, who Greenwood had asked for because he knew him, took over the interview.
“I’ve known you for 10 years and never pegged you for what you’re going though today,” Const. Darryl Morgan said.
Greenwood told Morgan he had since cut ties with Jeff Lynds.
“I went down to get my pot and cigarettes and he popped the f***ers,” Greenwood said of Lawrence.
“I didn’t want no one dead. It isn’t my cup of tea,” he said.
During the interview there was a fair bit of dialogue about Jeff Lynds giving the order for Mersereau and Christensen to be killed, but not pulling the strings. Lynds was the uncle of Curtis Lynds, who Lawrence testified had given him and Greenwood guns to carry out the killings.
Morgan said Jeff Lynds and others were saying Greenwood was involved in the murders.
“I didn’t pull the trigger,” Greenwood said.
The trial resumes Monday in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Kentville.
