New York Post

Audio twist at slay trial

- Amanda Lozada and Selim Algar

A Brooklyn handyman accused of murdering his boss coached his daughter to testify that cops coerced her into helping them nab him, prosecutor­s said at his murder trial Thursday, playing an incriminat­ing recording between the two.

“In case they call you to take the chair and talk, you say . . . that they threatened you and all that, and then you start to cry,” Luis Perez told his daughter, Irene, in Spanish, on the recording.

Perez had blabbed to her on an earlier call that he dismembere­d landlord Bruce Blackwood in 2006 and stuffed the body parts in garbage bags.

“It’s not about committing the perfect crime — it’s just about how well you clean it up,” he had said on a chilling tape played earlier in the trial for jurors in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

But Irene later testified that conviction­hungry cops had coerced her into recording her father on the damning call and threatened to yank custody of her kids if she refused. Cops denied the charge and said the distraught daughter voluntaril­y offered to help them nab the accused killer.

Prosecutor­s say Perez brutally murdered Blackwood because the landlord accused him of theft and forgery.

Blackwood, an OTB manager whose body was never found, owned several homes in Queens and Brooklyn and used Perez as an occasional handyman.

In the call, Perez allegedly told his daughter he killed Blackwood because he didn’t want to go back to jail for the theft and forgery raps.

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