Defence rejects alleged confession
When Sheldon Worme told an undercover officer playing the boss of a fictitious crime organization that he played a significant role in the murder of Daniel Levesque, 29, it was only to maintain his position in the group, his lawyer told a jury on Wednesday.
Tonii Roulston said Worme was telling the truth when he initially told Det. Darren Berglind at a Vancouver hotel in January 2009 that he did not help kill the victim during a robbery, but it was not what the bogus crime boss wanted to hear.
“What (the undercover officers) were trying to get was a statement from Sheldon, that’s all they want,” Roulston said in her final argument of Worme’s first-degree murder trial. Roulston urged the jury to convict Worme of no more than manslaughter.