MANDEL: NCR defence a bitter pill for PATH victim's family to swallow

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Published Nov 02, 2018 • 1 minute read

The mother of Rosemarie Junor, Rosalind Junor speaks to media after Rohinie Bisesar pleads not guilty in fatal stabbing of Rosemarie Junor on Friday November 2, 2018. (Dave Abel/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network)

Rosemarie Junor’s family refuses to accept that their daughter’s killer could be found not criminally responsible.

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They brought photos of her wedding day and filled the courtroom benches, shaking their heads as the psychiatrist diagnosed Rohinie Bisesar with severe schizophrenia and absolving her of any responsibility for what she did.

Junor’s mother Rosalind was marking her birthday that day with hopes of forgiving Bisesar and getting on with rebuilding her shattered family.

“I was willing to forgive her from the bottom of my heart,” she told reporters. “I was going to go down on my knees and say I forgive you…but it wasn’t there…”

“You did it. Accept it. And then you know what I’d say? ‘I forgive you.'”

They believe the NCR defence is too easily used to escape punishment.

“We are hurt. We are very, very hurt as a family,” she said. “She used her hand with that weapon and stabbed my baby in her heart.”

And even now that she’s on medication, it hardly seems as if she’s sorry at all.

mmandel@postmedia.com

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