The common-law partner of the man responsible for a massacre on a Saskatchewan First Nation wept as she talked about years of emotional and physical abuse that would culminate in the death of her father during the stabbing rampage.
“I wish I left sooner,” Vanessa Burns said Thursday while wiping tears from her eyes on the fourth day of a coroner’s inquest.
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