A Saskatchewan man accused of conspiring to kill his wife told police he knew his wife was recording his conversations with an alleged lover, a jury heard Thursday.
Curtis Vey and his alleged mistress Angela Nicholson are both facing two charges of conspiracy to commit murder. The Crown alleges the two were plotting to murder their respective spouses.
A Prince Albert court heard Wednesday a recorded conversation between Vey and Nicholson in which the two allegedly talk about staging a disappearance and a house fire. The Crown aims to prove the pair planned to kill Curtis's wife, Brigitte Vey, in a house fire and kill Nicholson’s husband, Jim Taylor, by drugging him.
But on Thursday, court was shown video of an interview between police and Curtis. In the video, he tells investigators he never had plans to kill his wife and describes her as his childhood sweetheart.
Curtis admitted in the video to having an affair with Nicholson but also said he loves his wife to pieces.
He and Brigitte were married for 28 years at the time. The two are the parents of Vancouver Canucks forward Linden Vey.
Brigitte testified Wednesday she thought things were fine in her marriage. The couple, who lived on a farm near Wakaw, Sask., were planning for retirement together until October 2012, when Brigitte caught her husband texting in the bathtub and became suspicious that he was cheating on her.
She then hid an iPod under the kitchen table to record her husband’s conversations.
The trial is expected to go into next week, and several more witnesses, including undercover police officers who sat in cells with the accused, are expected to testify.
Court has not yet heard why Curtis Vey had the conversation he had with Angela Nicholson if he knew he was being recorded.
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Jules Knox was reporting live from court:
