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After being tied up, crushed and assaulted with a blowtorch, a metropolis man was capable of escape his assailants by a basement window and flee for assist, a prosecutor advised courtroom Monday.

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In detailing the case he expects to name, Crown lawyer Jack Kelly advised Justice Michael Marion that Sean Brooks and his upstairs neighbour, William McIntosh had an acrimonious relationship that got here to a head on March 5, 2021.

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McIntosh and Rory Libbrecht face prices of break and enter to commit an illegal confinement and aggravated assault for the assault on Brooks in his northeast Calgary basement suite.

A 3rd man, Cole McLean, was additionally scheduled to face trial with the opposite two, however his matter has been adjourned to a later date.

Kelly advised the Court docket of King’s Bench decide that every one three engaged within the assault on Brooks.

“Brooks … will let you know that William McIntosh and different people that he wasn’t acquainted with, got here downstairs, tied him up, beat him, produced a blowtorch, burned him round his ear, poured bleach over him, continued the beating over what he believes was hours,” Kelly mentioned.

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At one level all of the assailants went to the upstairs “leaving him within the basement,” the prosecutor mentioned.

“And he was capable of impact an escape by a basement window and ran down the road, collapsing … in one of many neighbour’s yard.”

Police responded and located Brooks “who was in a really medically distressed situation.”

Brooks was taken to Foothills Medical Centre the place he was handled for burns, cuts and different accidents attributable to the beating, Kelly mentioned.

He mentioned the assault occurred after McIntosh’s estranged spouse, Ashley Corbett, believed Brooks had damaged into the upstairs unit whereas she made a quick journey to drop her daughter off at a close-by faculty, leaving her son alone within the residence.

Corbett testified that when she returned to the house, the place she was caring for his or her youngsters whereas McIntosh was at work although she lived elsewhere on the time, she found the again door had been kicked in.

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She then checked the house and located one in all McIntosh’s firearms was lacking, though she later found 4 weapons had been taken.

Corbett referred to as McIntosh, after which her roommate McLean to take care of the problem.

When she picked up McLean he was with one other man, Libbrecht, though she didn’t know that particular person.

Underneath cross-examination by McIntosh’s lawyer, Alain Hepner, the girl agreed she by no means noticed her ex-husband go to the basement the place Brooks was assaulted.

She additionally agreed with defence counsel Kirsten Lancee that she couldn’t be sure the photograph she despatched to police of the person she believed was Rory, was the identical particular person concerned within the assault.

The trial continues on Tuesday.

KMartin@postmedia.com

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