Sinbad King Simba Marshall admits that, after his arrest for killing a 82-year-old woman in her Scarborough bungalow, he told a lot of lies, including falsely claiming to police he’d never been in the house, despite his DNA being found on some pop cans.

“I thought if I lied, I was going home,” testified Marshall, although in November 2015, when Stella Tetsos died after he beat her, his home was the streets and a vacant shed near St. Clair Ave. East and Birchmount Rd.

But the 25-year-old man, who has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, continued to insist in court Thursday that his lying is over and that he has “owned” up to what happened after breaking into Tetsos’ home, panicking and assaulting the widowed grandmother. He told the jury he stole her jewlery, cut the phone lines, and left the house as quickly as possible, leaving her conscious and “fine.”

“I’m going to suggest you’re continuing to lie to this day to this jury,” prosecutor David Steinberg challenged the young man sitting in front of him.

“No, I told you what happened ... I accidentally ... caused her death,” replied Marshall, his voice fading as the cross-examination wore on.

“I’m going to suggest that’s your biggest lie, that this was an accident, that you didn’t intend to kill her,” the crown attorney said.

Marshall again denied the suggestion.

Referring to testimony of a medical examiner that Tetsos had 94 blunt force trauma injuries and dozens of rib fractures, Steinberg said that is entirely inconsistent with Marshall’s testimony that he slapped and punched her, sending Tetsos flat on her back. He showed the jury an image of Tetso’s badly bruised rear torso and suggested Marshall had stomped and kicked her, which he denied.

“Not only was it intentional; it was cold blooded,” the prosecutor said. “You destroyed her rib cage, and broke her sternum.”

“I didn’t think I was hitting her that hard,” Marshall said.

He acknowledged, however, that the medical evidence heard in court has indicated her injuries were “pretty severe.”

Steinberg suggested Tetsos died slowly over hours, and that during that time, instead of helping her, Marshall “helped yourself to her chains (jewlery),” snapping them from her neck and taking rings off the hands of a dying woman.

“She told me just to take the jewlery,” said Marshall in a whisper, gazing blankly. He has testified he was only in the house for about 10 minutes.

Marshall was wearing Testos’s ring when he was arrested a few days later.

Her body was discovered in the basement.

Marshall testified that after beating Tetsos, and ransacking her home, he fled, leaving behind a TV on the driveway. He went to his shed and slept. He had no explanation why celltower records showed he travelled to downtown Toronto several hours later that evening.

Marshall was the the first and only witness for the defence.

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The evidentiary part of the trial has now concluded.

The jury was told to return to court Tuesday for closing addresses.