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A Brantford. Ont., man who subjected the “impoverished, grieving mother” of a murdered child to a decade of “tooth and nail” court litigation as the trustee of his killer brother’s estate was “carrying out a vendetta” against her.

The stinging decision, which orders the man, Michael Osidacz, to personally repay about $240,000 to the woman, Julie Craven, and the estate of his brother came in a costs decision from Ontario Superior Court Judge Thomas Lofchik.

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It followed an earlier decision, in May, in which Lofchik ruled that Osidacz had to pay about $71,000 back to the estate he had essentially stripped of funds in order to finance his fight against Craven.

The new amount, about $170,000, is an award for solicitor-client costs and will go to Craven personally.

“It should have been clear to any reasonable person that Julie Craven was entitled to substantial damages … and using the assets of the estate to advance speculative and groundless defences” was designed to bleed the estate of money so Craven “saw no or at least the minimal amount …”