Oct 31 2022
Nothing in the evidence “resembles a plan. Nothing that indicates payments were made,” defence lawyer Robb MacDonald said. “There is virtually no motive that the Crown can point to here.”
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''The lawyer for a Mississauga man accused of murdering his mother told a Brampton jury it’s not plausible that his client would orchestrate an “elaborate murder scheme,” five months after saving her from another near-fatal stabbing.
In his closing address to the jury, Robb MacDonald denied that Eric Lu had anything to do with the killing of Ming-Chien (Teresa) Hsin, 59, saying the Crown has failed to prove the prosecution theory he was the architect of a murder-for-hire plot.
Lu and his mother were close and there was no “financial smoking gun,” MacDonald said, adding that although Lu had made inquiries about his mother’s life insurance policy, he didn’t stand to benefit — his grandmother, not Lu, was the benefactor.
Hsin was found stabbed to death in her car in the parking lot of a Robert Speck Parkway office tower on April 10, 2015, two days after Lu called police to first report her missing.
At trial, prosecutors argued Lu, who has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder, made that missing-person call
knowing his mother was already dead after helping hide her killer in the back of her car.''
