Accused said killing women wasn’t murder as they were guilty

The man on trial for murdering three women in the Ottawa Valley two years ago told police he killed his three former acquaintances because they were not innocent.

Fifty-nine-year-old Basil Borutski confessed to police in an interview room at the Pembroke OPP detachment the day after the crimes in September 2015.

The video of that confession continued to be played in court Friday as part of Borutski’s trial for first-degree murder charges in the deaths of 66-year-old Carol Culleton, 36-year-old Anastasia Kuzyk and 48-yearold Nathalie Warmerdam.

Borutski said several times he makes a distinction between murder and killing because the Bible does and that murder is killing someone or something that is innocent.

He said the women were guilty of lying about him to police and having him thrown in jail for things he didn’t do.

Borutski is representing himself at the trial but is refusing to participate, sitting in the prisoner’s box facing forward with his eyes closed most of the time.

Treasury Board President Liz Sandals, however, insist that is not the reason for their upcoming departures.

Matthews will remain as the Liberals’ campaign co-chair through the election, saying she has enormous respect for Premier Kathleen Wynne.

“I am confident that, on June 7, 2018, the people of Ontario will give her and her team the mandate to continue to serve,” Matthews wrote in a statement Friday.