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The killer had a “convenient memory,” prosecutors said, that allowed him to recall he didn’t bring a knife, but little else of the party beyond playing whiskey pong and smoking weed.

Hussein fled the apartment after stabbing and slashing Boucher at least nine times, and the Crown showed the jury surveillance footage of his shadowy figure leaving the building around the time of the killing.

Hussein walked to a friend’s house before taking a cab ride to his family home, where he testified he woke up in his bed and headed out to “chill and smoke some weed” with another friend.

Homicide detectives came knocking on his family’s door 20 minutes after he left.

Hussein told court he left his phone at home and spent the next week at his friend’s place.

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As prosecutors pointed out in cross-examination, Hussein learned on Facebook that one of his good friends had been killed, but never once phoned any of the other party guests to find out what happened.

Instead, he shaved his head to change his appearance once he learned on an evening newscast that he was the prime suspect.

“Because I was wanted for murder,” Hussein told court.

A few days later, he called his lawyer and turned himself in.

Investigators had followed a trail of blood Hussein left around the apartment, from the bedroom where Boucher was stabbed to the living room and the bathroom, where blood matching Hussein’s was found smeared on a box of bandages.

Boucher’s blood was also found there, dripping down the bathtub, and blood spatter and DNA experts said it was possible the victim’s blood was carried there by an object — likely the murder weapon — as the blade rested on the edge.