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Ronald and her lover, Bhupinderpal Gill, 40, are on trial for the 2014 killing of his wife. The police theory is that the accused, both OC Transpo drivers, conspired to kill her so they could finally be together.

Ronald has insisted she is innocent, but her account of what happened the day of the killing has gone untold until now.

She was running out of breath, she said. She may have screamed or yelled.

She thought she was going to faint, so she steadied herself with her hands and feet on the bloody living-room floor.

“I felt something under my feet. I saw a knife. I think I grabbed it. It was my right hand. I had touched the knife, then I threw it on the floor,” she told the jury.

“I was nervous and scared. I wanted to walk away from it.”

She almost did walk away, but when she got to the front door, she realized she had blood on her hands, she said. And it was the blood of her secret lover’s wife.

She figured she’d be blamed for the killing because she was the mistress, she testified. Shaking in fear, she said she put on latex gloves and wiped her fingerprints off the bloody knife.

She was shaking so much she somehow cut herself. “I don’t know how. I was wiping and shaking. I nicked my hand, my finger … I saw I was bleeding,” she testified.

She thought she was going to faint again so she drank water from the tap in the kitchen sink.

Then, to explain how police found her blood upstairs, Ronald testified that she went looking for a Band-Aid.

Ronald, who has insisted her innocence, gave her account under examination in chief by her lawyer, Michael Smith.