It’s crazy to think that court is finally just around the corner. Three and a half years ago a bunch of us lost an amazing and beautiful woman, Elizabeth Lafantaisie. She didn’t pass away peacefully, she was strangled to death by another human being. A bunch of us grieved, heck, all of Manitoba grieved.
A few of us family members plan on attending every single day of the trial. We’re such a large family that it would be impossible for all of us to take time off work to attend.
Thomas Anthony Joseph Brine will stand trial for first degree murder in the death of Elizabeth Lafantaisie on Monday, September 29, 2014. Trial is scheduled to end Friday, October 10, 2014.
Thomas Brine is my age, arrested when he was 25, standing trial at age 29. It’s so sad to think that those valuable years of his life are spent in jail. It’s so sad for his family, they lost a loved one too. For what? This whole situation is all just shitty.
Everyone approaches legal battles differently. As much as the things we’ll hear during trial will be detailed and horrible, I’m anxious to finally know what happened to Memère. She is our loved one, we deserve to know what happened to her. I’m not sure how to explain why I want to know, but when it’s someone you love, you feel you have a right to know what happened during their last moments.
For the last three and a half years we’ve been guessing scenarios, formulating our own versions of what happened to her. Well that’s enough guessing and assuming. It’s now time for us to know a bit more. I know, I know, we won’t hear what we’ll want to hear, we won’t get the answers we’re looking for like “Why her?” or “Why kill her?” I know we’ll never know the answer to that because it's inhumane to understand it, but we deserve to be more involved.
When you lose a loved one to homicide, you desperately want to be employed with the WPS Homicide Unit so you can participate in the investigating alongside them. But unfortunately it’s not that easy to get that kind of job, so we have no choice but to step aside and let them make discoveries and crack the case, arrest a suspect, put him in jail and then close the file and hand it over to attorneys. That important file that we’d all like to take a peek at rested in the hands of attorneys for three years. We’ve been waiting a long time to know what’s in that darn file.
Not fair. But we're patient.
Now it’s time for the pain to come back all over again, it’s time for hugs, tears, media, twisted stomachs, zero appetite, zombie-like spirits and seeing the accused, face to face.
Bring it, we’ve waited long enough.
-Cg
A few of us family members plan on attending every single day of the trial. We’re such a large family that it would be impossible for all of us to take time off work to attend.
Thomas Anthony Joseph Brine will stand trial for first degree murder in the death of Elizabeth Lafantaisie on Monday, September 29, 2014. Trial is scheduled to end Friday, October 10, 2014.
Thomas Brine is my age, arrested when he was 25, standing trial at age 29. It’s so sad to think that those valuable years of his life are spent in jail. It’s so sad for his family, they lost a loved one too. For what? This whole situation is all just shitty.
Everyone approaches legal battles differently. As much as the things we’ll hear during trial will be detailed and horrible, I’m anxious to finally know what happened to Memère. She is our loved one, we deserve to know what happened to her. I’m not sure how to explain why I want to know, but when it’s someone you love, you feel you have a right to know what happened during their last moments.
For the last three and a half years we’ve been guessing scenarios, formulating our own versions of what happened to her. Well that’s enough guessing and assuming. It’s now time for us to know a bit more. I know, I know, we won’t hear what we’ll want to hear, we won’t get the answers we’re looking for like “Why her?” or “Why kill her?” I know we’ll never know the answer to that because it's inhumane to understand it, but we deserve to be more involved.
When you lose a loved one to homicide, you desperately want to be employed with the WPS Homicide Unit so you can participate in the investigating alongside them. But unfortunately it’s not that easy to get that kind of job, so we have no choice but to step aside and let them make discoveries and crack the case, arrest a suspect, put him in jail and then close the file and hand it over to attorneys. That important file that we’d all like to take a peek at rested in the hands of attorneys for three years. We’ve been waiting a long time to know what’s in that darn file.
Not fair. But we're patient.
Now it’s time for the pain to come back all over again, it’s time for hugs, tears, media, twisted stomachs, zero appetite, zombie-like spirits and seeing the accused, face to face.
Bring it, we’ve waited long enough.
-Cg