Bloody mistake

Kyle Joseph McQuaid pleads guilty after cutting himself on broken glass, leaving bloody mess in strangers’ apartments

A man who was found bloodied in a stranger’s apartment after he cut himself on window glass trying to get into the building will be back in court in June for sentencing.

Kyle Joseph McQuaid appeared before Chief Judge Nancy Orr Friday morning in provincial court in Charlottetown where he pleaded guilty to three counts of being unlawfully in a dwelling.

The court heard the police were called to an apartment building in Charlottetown in January after a resident awoke to someone banging on their apartment door.

When they arrived, the police found blood on an apartment door and when they mentioned it to the tenant he told them he had no idea what they were talking about.

After going back in briefly, the tenant came out, said there was a man he didn’t know inside and told police there was blood in the apartment.

Another tenant later told the police he came home that night to find McQuaid hitting the building’s front door.

The tenant said he later heard glass breaking and saw McQuaid climb through a broken window where he cut himself.

A third tenant reported to police she saw a man was in her apartment that night and he left blood behind.

In total, McQuaid caused $710 in damage and a further $150 to clean up his blood.

Defence lawyer Yolande Murphy told the court McQuaid had been in the building partying with a few people on a different floor when he went outside for a smoke.

McQuaid was intoxicated, he didn’t have a jacket on, it was cold out and he couldn’t find the person whose apartment he had been in, Murphy said.

She told the court McQuaid got disoriented, panicked and broke the window.

Her client didn’t mean to disrupt anyone’s lives, she said.

McQuaid will be back in court June 7 after the defence asked for a pre-sentence report.