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There was no way Rachelle Denis was faking it the day the guards found her naked and delusional in her cell at the old Innes Road jail. It was Sept. 30, 2011, and Denis was transported to the emergency room.

She was saying she could fly. She told doctors she had heard from God and was seeing things and insisted she had been raped by the man she is on trial for killing.

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“You cannot fake incoherence and confusion,” forensic psychiatrist Julian Gojer told the jury on Monday under an exhaustive examination-in-chief by defence lawyer Oliver Abergel.

The doctor led the jury — eight women, four men — through a detailed history of Denis, 43, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Tony El-Kassis, a well-known Richmond chip truck owner, on July 2, 2010.

A day earlier, his four daughters had given him and his longtime wife, Cecile, the day off to celebrate Canada Day in Wakefield. They all pitched in at Tony’s Chip Wagon, where the El-Kassis girls answer the phone with: “Chippers!”