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Company staff had delivered and set up the dresser in November 2017. But they did not secure it to the wall nor advise Sood that he should do so, he testified.

On Jan. 6, Sood found his then four-year-old son pinned by an open drawer after the dresser tipped forward. The boy had a red mark on his foot and was upset, but not seriously injured.

Sood began calling M&M about an hour later, demanding to have the dresser picked up that day. But he was told there was no one available to attend his Surrey home for two days.

“Mr. Sood expressed voluble displeasure with M&M’s proposed response to his complaint,” Woods noted. “During those calls he pressed more and more forcefully for same-day removal of the dresser from his home. While doing so, he became increasingly angry, agitated and emotional.”

Woods said Sood became “unhinged” and used “a very aggressive tone and a great deal of foul and profane language” in his calls.

Sood admitted at trial that he behaved “like an asshole,” but denied threatening death or bodily harm to either Gert Knudsen or his son Jesse.

But Woods said that even by Sood’s own admissions, he was out of control that day.

“The picture of Mr. Sood’s prolonged succession of abusive telephone calls that emerges from the testimony of Crown witnesses and from Mr. Sood himself presents a picture of a man in the grip of an unstoppable and uncontrollable rage,” Woods said.

Given his rage, Sood would not have been able “to exercise the self-control needed to regulate his own behaviour so as effectively to keep it within legal limits,” Woods found.