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The key witness in the Guelph “robocalls” trial has sent an email to supporters seeking donations to help him cover $800 in legal expenses.

Andrew Prescott, whose was deputy campaign manager on the 2011 Guelph federal Conservative campaign, gave evidence after reaching an immunity deal with Crown prosecutors in the case against Michael Sona.

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Prescott testified that Sona had walked through the campaign office, exultantly repeating “it’s working” when a robocall went out to opposition supporters, fraudulently directing them to the wrong polling location. But even the Crown acknowledged that Prescott’s testimony was of limited value since his memory of events in 2011 seemed to change as time went by.

On Thursday, Prescott sent an email to friends thanking them for their support and seeking help with his legal bill.

“It’s been a very long and hard two and a half years, which is when this whole fiasco in the media began,” Prescott wrote, going on to complain about friends who “turned their backs” on him.