The jury in the inquest into 22-year-old Serena Perry’s death at the Saint John Regional Hospital in 2012 hearing indirectly from the last person believed to have seen Perry alive, a fellow psychiatric patient.
In a statement of defense, that patient, who we are calling B, says that on the night of Serena’s death she led him to the amphitheatre, where her body was later discovered, and they sat and talked. B says Serena was saying she didn’t want to live and was tired of being tormented. He says her behaviour was frightening and he wanted to leave.
B will not be testifying at the inquest.
In a taped police interview the day after Perry’s death, B appeared confused and was saying that he was having difficulty concentrating however Constable Stephen Davidson telling the inquest that he felt that B’s demeanor was an act.
The police video shows him alone in the interview room looking at himself in the mirror, singing, whistling and talking to himself. In the video, B says he will not be giving police a statement and and he’s informed he will be going back to detention.
Constable Davidson says that’s all the interaction he had with B.
Three weeks have been set aside for this inquest.
