Holding up two photos of Tess Richey’s dead body at the bottom of a stairwell, a Crown prosecutor suggested Kalen Schlatter felt sick in a cab leaving the area because “this is what you left behind.”

Schlatter, who has testified that he did not sexually assault and strangle Tess Richey, said it was food and alcohol that made him feel sick and get out of the cab early to throw up.

Over several hours of cross-examination Tuesday, Crown prosecutor Bev Richards suggested Schlatter has shown that he is willing to lie and has concocted a narrative that can be disproved by looking at the surveillance footage from cameras lining Church Street on the night of Nov. 25, 2017.

Schlatter, 23, has pleaded not guilty to the first-degree murder of 22-year-old Richey, who had gone out dancing with a friend that night to forget the pain of a breakup with her boyfriend.

On Monday, Schlatter took the stand in his defence, testifying that Richey asked if she could kiss him and then led him into an alley between two houses on Church Street, where they started “making out” at the bottom of a stairwell.

On Tuesday, Richards said the evidence shows Richey was going to go home.

She said surveillance video shows Richey appearing to hug her friend goodbye and then hail a cab, which Schlatter then waves on. Schlatter said no one was getting into the cab, so he waved it on because traffic was being held up.

Schlatter testified that Richey and her friend Ryley Simard argued because her friend wanted to go home and Richey wanted to stay out. Simard and Richey walked in opposite directions and he went after Richey, who walked to Church Street, because she seemed more upset, he said.

“You were tailing her,” Richards said. “She’d left you long behind, almost half a block.”

When shown the security video, Schlatter said he was not “following her. I’m just going to see if she’s all right.”

The video shows Schlatter and Richey sitting at the corner of Church Street and Dundonald Street for several minutes.

Richey ordered an Uber shortly after 4 a.m., which Richards said would have arrived at the same time Schlatter and Richey are seen standing up at 4:12 a.m.

“It’s just a coincidence?” Richards asked.

Schlatter said Richey never mentioned that she had ordered an Uber.

Richey never got the Uber and the driver cancelled the ride, the jury has heard.

Instead, Richey and Schlatter walk hand-in-hand into the alley where her body was found four days later by her mother and a friend. Schlatter walks out the alley at 5 a.m. alone. He said he left after Richey declined his offer to come home with him, and told him she didn’t want him to her keep her company.

Richards suggested Schlatter “slinks” away when he leaves, walking differently than when he walks into the alley.

Schlatter said he didn’t see a difference.

“You never look back do you, Mr. Schlatter?” Richards asked.

No, Schlatter said.

Richards argued that at no point in the videos does Richey show any sign of affection whatsoever towards Schlatter, and he agreed.

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Schlatter denied Richards’ assertion that it was his idea, not Richey’s, to go into the alley and the stairwell.

Schlatter said that while they were in the stairwell, he told Richey he had condoms if she wanted to have sex. She said no because she was on her period, Schlatter said.

“That was not the answer you were willing to accept,” Richards said. “She fought you. She was not going to give you sex, Mr. Schlatter was she?”

Schlatter said Richey said she still wanted to “make out and grind on each other.”

“I’m going to suggest to you that Tess Richey doesn’t do anything she doesn’t want do and that as a result you forced yourself on her didn’t you?”

“I did not force myself on her,” he said.

“You didn’t get what you want and you got mad and you strangled Ms. Richey to death, didn’t you?” Richards said.

“No, I didn’t kill Ms. Richey,” Schlatter said. “She was still alive when I left.”

Schlatter also denied knowing telling undercover officers that he “pushed the boundaries” with women and that he “liked a challenge.”

“Tess Richey was your challenge,” Richards said.

She showed Schlatter security video from outside Crews and Tangos bar, where both Schlatter and Richey can be seen as the Church Street club closed for the night. Richards suggested Schlatter was “looking to score” but that the video shows the woman he was initially pursuing ultimately left and his attempts to chat up another woman failed.

“You had to move on,” Richards said. “There was nothing for you.”

Schlatter maintained that he had been trying to decide whether to go home or get pizza, and had settled on going to a Pizza Pizza.

The defence has suggested it is possible someone else is responsible for killing Richey after Schlatter left.

The trial resumes Thursday.