Man ordered to undergo mental health evaluation

Husband pleaded guilty to charges of threatening his wife and her lawyer

A Calgary man who repeatedly left threatening, expletive-laced voice-mail messages for his exwife’s lawyer will undergo a mental health assessment, including testing for psychopathy, a judge ordered Tuesday.

Provincial court Judge Josh Hawkes agreed with Crown prosecutor Janice Walsh’s request that Darin Udowicz have a psychiatric risk assessment done.

Defence lawyer Kim Ross and Udowicz himself consented to the testing.

Walsh asked Hawkes to instruct the authors of any risk report to canvas the offender’s “mental status with regards to psychopathy so we have a full understanding of what Mr. Udowicz is dealing with.”

Udowicz, 47, pleaded guilty to three charges involving threatening behaviour toward his ex-wife, Mona Delisle, and her lawyer, Nigel Montoute.

Reading from a statement of agreed facts signed by Udowicz, Walsh detailed his conduct in menacing the victims in late 2017 and January 2018.

On Nov. 24, 2017, Udowicz was served with a brief of costs application, which upset him, causing him to call Delisle on their daughter’s cellphone.

“The accused mentioned to Ms. Delisle that she would be able to talk to her sister Stacey very soon and get her opinion, which caused (her) grave concern for her safety as her sister Stacey is deceased,” Walsh said.

He also sent her numerous emails, the tone of which made him appear to be getting “more aggressive, derogatory and, at times, threatening.”

Walsh mentioned two other incidents, one in which Delisle arrived at Udowicz’s home to pick up their kids and another when Udowicz confronted her following their son’s karate practice.

The prosecutor also played a series of voice-mail messages in which Udowicz expressed anger toward Montoute after the lawyer had insulted Udowicz in a comment Udowicz took as a challenge to fight.

During one exchange between the two, the father told the lawyer his son “will probably want to punch you in the (expletive) face,” when first meeting Montoute.

“Mr. Montoute responded with words to the effect (of ), ‘Well, that would make him more courageous than you,’” Walsh said.

In the messages, an angry-sounding Udowicz made comments such as he would be waiting downstairs for the lawyer and he was going to “(expletive) you up.”

In another recorded message, Udowicz said: “I’m going to pound your (expletive) face in. I’m gonna (expletive) pound it good and you can go to the (expletive) cops and (expletive) try to stop me, you little piece of (expletive). Try to (expletive) stop me.”

Hawkes will hear sentencing submissions in November.

Udowicz remains in custody until then.