Prince George, B.C.- Crown  has  started its closing  statements to the Jury by discounting the credibility of the accused, Cody Alan Legebokoff.

Legebokoff   had testified he was not the one who dealt the fatal blows in the deaths of Jill Stuchenko, Cynthia Maas and Natasha Montgomery.  He had testified three others (who he would only identify as X Y and Z)  did the dirty work, that he simply provided the weapons.

“His story of Mister X, Y and Z is fabrication” said Crown Counsel Joseph Temple.

Temple then went on to remind the jury that  Legebokoff’s  version of events  fails to  account for  injuries suffered by  Stuchenko and Maas, as both had  defensive wounds on the their arms and hands.  He pointed out that Legebokoff said there was very little blood when Cynthia Maas was hit with a steel weapon in his apartment, but there were 27  blood spatters of her blood on his shoes, yet there was  not one drop her  blood found in his apartment.

Temple went on to  say  Legebokoff’s testimony does not explain how Natasha Montgomery’s blood  ended up  in his bedroom, on the  box spring,  and behind the bedroom door if she was , as he testified, tackled in the hallway by Mr. X and was killed in the hallway outside his  bedroom.

Temple told the jury  Legebokoff’s  story “doesn’t explain the physical evidence.”

Earlier today, the defense  called on the jury to find  Legebokoff  guilty of  the lesser charge of second degree murder, as  Legebokoff has admitted to being present and  providing the murder weapon in each case but there was no  evidence  that he  planned the killings and  certainly his  testimony did not  completely exonerate him.  Crown  however says  Legebokoff was told  the three women were to be killed because they owed drug money.

Temple  says “15 year old  Loren Leslie did not stab herself in the neck, nor did she  beat herself  on the head with a wrench”.

Crown  will  continue  its closing  arguments tomorrow morning.