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Sheriffs wrestled a man to the floor of an Edmonton courtroom after he tore off his shirt and threw a punch moments after a judge convicted him of killing a man in an Edmonton homeless shelter.
Stanley Jago repeatedly interrupted the decision in his manslaughter trial Tuesday, swearing at Court of King’s Bench Justice Anna Loparco and claiming without evidence someone else was responsible for killing Thomas Gignac in the Herb Jamieson men’s shelter.
As Loparco elaborated on the evidence establishing Jago’s guilt, Jago asked “can you just find me guilty ma’am?”
When Loparco replied she just had, Jago stood in the prisoner’s box, took off the top of his orange remand centre coveralls, tore off his t-shirt and shouted at the court to look at him.
The two sheriffs in the courtroom immediately stood and told Jago to control himself. When they moved closer to take him back into the prisoner’s cells, Jago appeared to strike out. The officers grabbed him, wrestled him to the floor of the courtroom and handcuffed him.
As they removed him from the room, Jago screamed “I’m gonna have your f–king job.”
The incident was a dramatic end to a month-long trial that peeled back the curtain on violence in Edmonton homeless shelters.
Loparco found Jago lashed out with punches and kicks after Gignac, 54, stumbled partially clothed near Jago’s sleeping mat.
The defence argued Jago’s actions were not the main cause of Gignac’s death and that he may have been suffering from a seizure when he fell. Loparco rejected that evidence.
