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After three days of deliberations, a B.C. Supreme Court jury has found Oak Bay father Andrew Berry guilty of second-degree murder in the deaths of his two young daughters, Chloe and Aubrey Berry.
Berry’s trial began in April 2019 after he was accused of stabbing his six-year-old Chloe and four-year-old Aubrey Berry to death on Christmas day in 2017.
He pled not guilty to the charges which resulted in a five-month long trial in Vancouver.
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According to CBC News coverage of the trial, Berry told the court that he and his daughters were attacked in his apartment by a man after he owed money to a loan shark.
On the other hand, the Crown testified that Berry used a knife and baseball bat to kill Chloe before attempting to kill himself.
Autopsy reports revealed that 6-year-old Chloe Berry had been struck in the head hard enough to fracture her skull, and then stabbed 26 times. Her sister, 4-year-old Aubrey was stabbed 32 times.
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In his testimony, Const. Piotr Ulanowski, the first officer to enter the Beach Drive apartment after the incident, recalled finding Andrew Berry lying naked in a bathtub with stab wounds on his chest and neck area.
Crown prosecutor Clare Jennings told the jury that Berry was hostile towards his parents and his ex-wife, Sarah Cotton, citing this animosity as reason for killing his daughters.
